Core competence thinking

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Obviously, the emphasis is on developing the higher-order abilities crucial for sound decision making. Some of the core competencies for ESD include critical thinking, futures thinking and systemic thinking. These are expected to provide the much needed helicopter view that is vital for sound decision making. 

It takes a leap-of-faith to assume that a person who is knowledgeable of the OSH activities automatically translates into knowing how many OSH professionals at his or her establishment (i.e., location) will be hired in the next five years or even which non-techni-cal core competencies he or she thinks will be required or expected. 

It will be difficult to refute this statement. Think about it. What percentage of all of the processes you conduct within your company can you refer to as core competence ... 

Chapter 2 explores the fundamentals of critical thinking and analysis. Managers must be ready to analyze problems and understand how information is influenced by bias and perceptions, even manipulation. Chapter 3 examines the core competencies of the occupational safety manager. Chapter 4 tells us how to build an occupational safety management program. The remaining chapters are as follows ... 

Initially, a great way to keep track of your keywords and priorities is to create a spreadsheet that lists each keyword, keyword phrase, its priority, and the pc e URL you want your keyword to link to, which should be the page that you want to rank for. To determine keyword priority, think about the keywords that map closest to your core competencies cis a business. For instance, if you own a hair salon, your top priority keywords might be salon, hair, hair salon, beauty, hair styling, and so on. And then, you might choose keywords like waxing, coloring, makeup application, and so on, for the next level of priority. 

One unfortunate and counterproductive consequence of the Safety-I perspective is that safety and core business (production) are seen as competing for resources. Investments in safety are seen as necessary but unproductive costs and safety managers may sometimes find it hard to justify or sustain these. The dilemma is captured by the often quoted saying If you think safety is expensive, try an accident. Yet despite this plea, company upper levels and boards often find it hard to understand the importance of investments in safety - particularly if there have been no serious accidents for a period of time or if capital costs have to be recovered. If everything seems to work, then there are no failures. Why, then, invest in preventing them ... 

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