Organizational factor

As per References 6 and 7, in regard to the occurrence of the Piper Alpha disaster, the organizational and technical factors mainly stemmed from financial pressures. Consequently, some of the direct or indirect resulting factors were as follows [3]  

All in all, four ways for organizations to learn from past experiences are as follows [3,8]  

Describe all accidents in safety bulletins and discuss them in safety meetings. 

Ensure that all standards and codes of practice contain appropriate notes on accidents that led to the recommendations. 

Make use of accident information retrieval and storage systems as they contain a lot of useful information. 

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Organizational factors create preconditions for errors, At the operational level, plant and corporate management inadvertently support conditions for errors. The safety culture of the... 

The last area addressed by the systems approach is concerned with global issues involving the influence of organizational factors on human error. The major issues in this area are discussed in Chapter 2, Section 7. The two major perspectives that need to be considered as part of an error reduction program are the creation of an appropriate safety culture and the inclusion of human error reduction within safety management policies. 

Sociotechnical approach (control of error through changes in management policy and culture) Occupational/process safety Effects of organizational factors on safety Policy aspects Culture Interviews Surveys Organizational redesign Total Quality Management More frequent in recent years... 

A combination of on-the-job and off-the-job methods is usually the best solution in most types of training. The following factors should be examined in order to analyze the role of training in preventing human error. Team training will be considered in the social and organizational factors which follow in other sections. 

The first area focuses on the cultural and organizational factors that will have a major influence on the effectiveness of a human error data collection system and how well the information derived from such a system is translated into successful error reduction strategies. Regardless of how effectively the technical issues are dealt with, the system will not be successful imless there is a culture in the organization which provides support for the data gathering process. No data collection system aimed at identifying human error causes of accidents will be workable without the active cooperation of the workforce. 

Weil R., Apostolakis G., 1999, Identification of important organizational factors using operating experience, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human Factor Research in Nuclear Power Operations, Japan. 

A component for systematically investigating the management and organizational factors that allowed the critical events and conditions to occur, that is, root causes identification. 

Workers interact with technology, the environment, and organizational factors every day. Sometimes human performance problems involve the individual, hut most often, human performance problems are the result of the way technology, the environment, or organizational factors affect a person s performance. 

Figure 6-2 illustrates how people relate and interact with technology, the environment, and organizational factors. 

The Organizational Factors layer (slice) represents the defenses put into place by top management. This level of system defenses might include a company culture that puts safety first, and management decisions that reinforce safety by providing well-trained employees and well-designed equipment to do the job. 

The second layer of defenses is the supervision slice. This refers to the hrst-line supervisor and his or her safety-consciousness as well as organizational factors as displayed hy the operational decisions he or she makes. 

Organizational factors—synergism with other products of the firm, taking advantage of internal strengths of the firm, diversify the risks of the total firm investment portfolio. 

Cockburn, Henderson, and Stern (1999) emphasize the importance of organizational factors and the distribution of power relationships within the firm for the speed at which new research methods are employed. Some firms are more suited to the new technology than others. The authors note that all their informants emphasized that differences in the historical experience of the firm, in their knowledge capital, were critically important in shaping the adoption decision (p. 19). 

Carmel S, GlickSM. 2001. Compassionate-empathic physicians Personality traits and social-organizational factors that enhance or inhibit this behavior pattern. Soc Sci Afe/43 1253. 

Gaither CA, Nadkarni A, Mott DA, et al. 2007. Should I stay or should I go The influence of individual and organizational factors on pharmacists future work plans. J Am Pharm Assoc 47 165. 

The following sections of this chapter will describe the technology available for POCT and the organizational factors that are important when POCT is implemented in a healthcare setting. The chapter concludes with a short discussion of the future of POCT. 

The evaluation of the service encounter can be approached from several perspectives (Bateson 1985 Czepiel et al. 1985) (1) an organizational perspective, (2) a customer perspective, and (3) a customer-contact service employee perspective. The service oiganization is mainly interested in the performance of the customer-contact service employee because this perspective allows the service organization to attain its objectives. It is therefore essential for the service organization to identify organizational factors that affect the performance of service employees. The customer is mainly... 

The traditional way to value jobs involves a mix of internal organizational factors as well as external market conditions in setting pay rates. Various job-evaluation techniques have evolved different strategies for incorporating both of these essential influences into the wage-setting process. 

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