Management reviews process

Develop and execute communication plan Initial and ongoing training Facilitate management review process Identify process maturity goals and metrics Develop long-term strategic vision Create and execute annual action plan... 

Adopt the best alternative—This is the connection to the senior management review process. For major scope changes, the project manager should provide an analysis of the major solutions. Based upon financial analysis and qualitative factors, the project manager should present the project team s recommendation to key stakeholders and senior management for their agreement and support. 

The purpose here is to assure that hazards, risks, and safety and health management deficiencies observed in the monitoring and measurement, audit, incident investigation, and corrective and preventive action activities are properly communicated and considered in the continual planning and management review processes. 

Provisions in Section 7.1 of ZIO, Management Review Process, require that systems be in place to measure the effectiveness of the risk reduction measures taken. Those provisions are relative to the measurement of effectiveness and re-analyzing steps in The Safety Decision Hierarchy. Assuring that the actions taken accomplish what was intended is an integral step in the PDCA process. Followup activity would determine that the ... 

As shown below, the management review process commences with the Check step in the Plan-Do-Check Act (PDCA) model and provides input to senior management so that processes previously put in place may be accepted as satisfactory or revised, as in the Act step ... 

According to the ANSI ZIO standard for occupational health and safety management systems, the management review process should include consideration of the following eight inputs ... 

What The Baker Review Panel excerpted from ZlO s Section 7.0 gives the requirements added credibility. Also, it is difficult to improve on what the writers of the standard said about the Management Review Process. 

In many companies, a major Management Review process is conducted annually and a summary progress report carrying the signature of the chief executive officer is published. Such reports may be made available broadly, such as on the Internet. Publication of the reports serves the purposes of good community relations as well as good employee relations. 

Sales and operations planning (S OF) is a monthly senior management review process to align strategic objectives with operation tasks. 

The S OP or Senior Management Review process has been proven to be a key contributor to sustaining the performance level achieved through a TQM or... 

As a firm progresses with S OP, it reaches a point at which something more advanced is necessary, particularly as the company moves into Level 3 of the supply chain evolution. In Figure 7.8, the proeess reaches the point at which it becomes an important element in the senior management review process. A firm can expect that the level of detail requested will expand, as well as the elements included in the planning process. 

It is carried out in order to provide an independent input into the safety management review process leading to continual improvement... 

Facilities Reviews There are many lands of facilities reviews that are useful in detec ting and preventing process safety problems. They include pre-start-up reviews (before the plant operates), new-plant reviews (the plant has started, but is stiU new), reviews of existing plants (safety, technology, and operations audits and reviews), management reviews, critical instrument reviews, and hazardous materials transportation reviews. 

The project review process involves multiple steps that should be definea in management gmdelines (CCPS, 1993, pp. 57-61). The steps include (1) review pohcy, (2) review scheduling, (3) reviewtech-nique, (4) review team representation, (5) review documentation, (6) review follow-up, (7) review follow-up verification, and (8) review procedures change management. These steps define how a review, whether it be a safety review, environmental review, pre-start-up review, or whatever, is conducted and how closure of review aclion items is achieved. 

Review Follow-up Verification In addition to someone tracking the follow-up through progress reports, responsibility should be assigned to verify that any process changes were ac tuaUy made in the field. This verification can be done by a review team as part of a process pre-start-up review. It could also be part of the project team management responsibihty or assigned to a particular functional (i.e., safety and loss prevention) representative. The closure of the review process is complete once implementation is verified. 

Companies may wish to develop workshops to train potential team members in the inherent safety review process. The workshop can provide background information on inherent safety concepts, the extensive systems required to manage hazardous materials, and information on the inherent safety review process. Videos, problems, examples, and team exercises can be included to enliven the education process. 

Implementing an inherent safety review process is one mechanism companies can use to institutionalize inherent safety. The review process should integrate well with company systems for process safety management, new product development, and project execution. Safety, health, and environmental considerations in the new product or process development effort can be strengthened via the introduction of the inherent safety review. Companies may also build inherently safer design concepts into their existing process safety management system and process hazard reviews. 

Although there is no requirement for you to have a documented procedure for management review, you need to ensure that certain information is brought before the review and the review produces certain results. As you are going to conduct these reviews frequently you may want to ensure they follow a repeatable process and an obvious way to achieve this is through a documented procedure. 

Costs of poor quality were addressed under Management review and in order to provide adequate data for review, the prevention, appraisal, and failure costs need to be collected. Graphs showing the trend in quality costs for the plants, products, and processes would satisfy this requirement. 

Management review records (clause 4.1.3) Process verification records (clause 4.2.4.9.4) Contract review records (clause 4.3.4)... 

Deviation from the 860.1500 test location guideline should be discussed with EPA prior to starting a specialized marketing plan if significant delays are to be avoided during the review process. OPPTS 860.1500 outlines how the number of tests in a study can be modified relative to SEN labels. The use of an SEN may be a particularly useful way to manage unique crop pests found in limited easily definable and reasonably confined production regions. 

Checklists also provide a common basis for management review of assessments. Many organizations use standard checklists to control the development of a process or an entire project from initial design through decommissioning. The completed checklist must be approved by all relevant staff members and managers before a project can move from one stage to the next. 

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