Leadership system improvements

The Exemplar gap analysis found that many of the needed enabling systems were present but not well used, and that many sustaining systems were lacking. The intervention strategy vigorously built leadership and culture while deploying system improvements in support of culture building. 

Dr Mike Waite and William Montante, CSP, for their friendship, insights, and discussions on the nature and scope of safety systems. They have lead the way in thought leadership for improvement of safety and risk concepts. 

A well-designed QMS and the processes that comprise it require competent ownership with defined roles and responsibilities for program success. This combination ensures that the system and processes are established, maintained, improved, and remain current with industry practices and business expectations. Operational execution of the QMS and the processes comprising it will engage stakeholders, management, and leadership, provide business results, and support and ensure comphance. 

Once the metrics program is in place, the system and process metrics require visibility to process owners, upper management, and stakeholders. Process owners require understanding of the metrics trends, issues, and associated risks. Stakeholders must work with the process owner to identify and propose process improvement opportunities. Leadership is accountable to understand the issues and associated risks and responsibly apply resources for remediation efforts. 

The chapter, Safety Matrix People Applying Technology to Yield Safe Chemical Plants and Products by Davis of Dow Chemical, is concerned with protecting and improving safety in chemical plants. Dow Chemical has dramatically improved its safety record and seized a leadership position among chemical companies in the past decade. This improvement is not an accident, but the result of a dedicated attitude and systemic application that should be exported to the entire chemical industry. The lessons here would make us all winners and demonstrate that the chemical engineers are the solutions rather than the problems. 

Develop Policies and Plans That Support Individual and Community Health Efforts. This service requires leadership development at all levels of public health systematic community- and state-level planning for health improvement in all jurisdictions development and tracking of measurable health objectives as a part of continuous quality improvement strategies joint evaluation with the medical system to define consistent policy regarding prevention and treatment services and development of codes, regulations, and legislation to guide the practice of public health. 

Corporate Leaders—those providing the leadership commitment, setting the expectations, for a process safety performance and the supporting metrics system including the resources necessary to develop and implement such a program throughout the corporation to improve process safety. 

After reviewing model quality systems like ISO, Malcolm Baldrige, or the European Quality Award, it is evident that cGMPs fall short of being a true quality system. They lack many elements common to these quality models such as leadership, planning, process orientation, and continuous improvement. A corollary concern is sometimes expressed that the pharmaceutical business is so regulated that a best practice quality system like ISO is not sufficient. However, a central... 

The process by which research ideas are developed and funded in the United States—our innovation system, is another key factor influencing U.S. leadership in chemistry, improving how rapidly and easily ideas can be tested, developed, and extended. The factors that influence the process are discussed below. 

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