Management practices commitment factors

This workshop focused on factors such as work processes, systems, and technologies that could enable and accelerate the pace of innovation and increase the yield of major innovations from work in the basic chemical sciences. More specifically, speakers identified teamwork, commitment, standardized portfolio management, clear goals, well-defined milestones, and effective technology transfer as some of the characteristics of innovative institutions and practices. Successful approaches to innovation have taken place in different environments and between different environments—despite infrastmcture and cultural differences, both interdisciplinary collaborations and collaborations between industry and academia have proven beneficial for all parties. Funding must also be available to promote innovation at stages of research often ignored. 

A worthy safety culture was identified by Pidgeon and O Leary (1994) as having four factors (1) senior management commitment to safety (2) a shared care and concern for hazards, and solicitude for their impacts on people (3) realistic and flexible norms and rules about hazards and (4) a continual reflection upon practice through monitoring, analysis, and feedback systems. 

AH (Company C) companies, contractors and joint ventures under our operational control must manage HSSE and social performance in line with the Commitment and Policy, local laws and the terms of relevant permits and approvals. To help our staff and contractors to put the Commitment and Policy into practice we launched the HSSE and SP Control Framework. It includes a set of mandatory standards and manuals covering areas such as managing greenhouse gas emissions, impacts on biodiversity, road safety and security. We also include requirements for integrating environmental and social factors into the way we plan, design and take investment decisions on new projects. 

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