Establishing Accountability

6 Governing the Safety Management System 8.6.1 Establishing Accountability 

Without a clear chain of command ultimate responsibility for clinical safety can be blurred. Dealing with a legal challenge is not the time to begin ascertaining accountability. Any organisation developing an SMS needs to ask, who is ultimately accountable for safety Who decides whether a product can go live Who decides whether or not a costly, safety-related defect is fixed  

So who is best placed to be accountable for CRM Realistically this should be a senior manager, typically the most senior member of an organisation who is able to 

One particular challenge for personnel governing a CRM system is the involvement of third-party organisations tasked wholly or partly with the responsibility for undertaking CRM work. In most cases organisations will not be able to transfer their risks and responsibilities onto third-parties and therefore an environment of close co-operation and managed expectations is warranted. In particular, where a manufacturer is required to comply with particular regulatory standards, it would be wise to flow down appropriate performance requirements to any subcontractors. 

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Protocol Document for recording data establishing accountability for completed actions. 

This section of ZIO requires that management define roles, assign responsibilities and authority, provide the necessary resources (financial and human), and, I emphasize, establish accountability. If a management accountability system for safety, health, and environmental results is not in place, management commitment to attaining superior results is questionable. Accountability without consequences is not accountability. 

Appendix B, Roles and Responsibilities, is an excellent reference from which excerpts may be taken to define roles, assign responsibilities, establish accountabilities, and delegate authority as suitable to an entity s needs. The data cover the following employment categories President, Chief Executive Officer, Owner Executive Officers, Vice Presidents, and other Senior Leadership Directors, Managers, and Department Heads Supervisors Employees and Health and Safety Department. 

Defining responsibilities and establishing accountabilities is an important step. It must be done for safety and health management systems to be effective and to provide a basis for performance and accountability reviews. 

It can be instrumental in establishing accountability for employees [2]. Routine (weekly) safety walkthrough inspections should be conducted by... 

Defects are defined as those artifacts that are outside the window of acceptable attributes for the finished circuit board assembly. Thus, defects are not limited to the solder joints, specifically, but can also include damage to the circuit board material as well as degradation to component structures (e.g.,molding compound, leads or terminations, etc.). Defect types and their allowable frequencies (often expressed in parts-per-million solder joints or product units) vary with the different assembly processes and applications. Therefore, product drawings, in conjunction with industry standards (e.g., IPC-610), are used to establish accountable defect types for printed circuit boards. 

According to Bob Frost, Measuring Performance, as cited in The Performance-Based Management Handbook, Volume 3, Establishing Accountability for Performance ... 

Artley, W. (September 2001). The performance-based management handbook. Establishing accountability for performance (Vol. 3). Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. Retrieved from http //l. usa.gov/11 ISHxc. 

The purpose of the manifesting system is to establish accountability for and tracking of hazardous waste shipments. The manifest is an important feature of RCRA s "cradle to grave" system. A generator must keep a copy of each manifest for three years. The generator must also maintain records and report hazardous waste management activity, including the amount of hazardous waste produced, the transporters of the wastes, and the TSDFs in possession of the hazardous waste (40 CFR 262.40-262.44). 

Does the safety system force supervisory performance by establishing accountability ... 

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