Organizational standards

Depending on individual and historically developed legislation on occupational exposure measurements, there are a great variety of regulations among the European member states. In some states, a laboratory which performs such measurements has to prove its competence in a quality certification process, e. g., in accordance with ISO standard 17025 [6-96]. This requires scientific competence, maintenance of organizational standards, and the possession of appropriate laboratory equipment. 

The metric of audit scores is a proactive measurement of safety performance. Audits are used to measure the safety performance of a school against established organizational standards or government regulations. Questions are asked related to each aspect of a safety program being audited. The responses to these questions on the audit are then translated into a score that can serve as the metric that is used to measure performance. Types of safety audits cau include ... 

Defining the supervisory process would probably reduce empowerment without authority, because it would define both responsibility and authority to act. Mismatches should become apparent. A lack of clear organizational standards adds to fear, cynicism, and organizational chaos. Again, without standards, employees will view the actions of management as being based on favoritism or luck. 

These institutional/organizational standards tend to be resource-driven and path dependent. Their evolution depends in part on historical... 

The standard requires that the quality policy he relevant to the supplier s organizational goals and the expectations and needs of its customers. 

Who are these personnel who need organizational freedom and why do they warrant a special mention This is not meant to imply that you should set up a separate quality department. The standard does not in fact require all personnel to have organizational freedom but it suggests that some people will need organizational freedom to do certain things. 

The standard requires that if a project management approach is used, a project manager and project team be assigned, that appropriate resources be allocated, and any special responsibilities and organizational interfaces be defined. 

The standard requires that organizational interfaces between different groups which input to the design process be identified and the necessary information documented. 

The standard requires that organizational and technical interface information be transmitted. 

A quality system comprises the organizational structure, responsibilities, procedures, processes, and resources used to implement quality management, or ESH/PSM management in this case. This part of the standard includes a somewhat detailed discussion of each of the parts of the quality system as well as its documentation. 

To analyse the problem posed in Chapter 1 an overview of current literature on tools, methods, and standards concerning safety indicators will be presented in Chapter 3. With this overview a better understanding of the signs currently used to indicate safety will be obtained. These signs will be compared with the signs present prior to recent accidents (1995-2002). From both literature and case histories a hypothesis will be derived that will be especially tested in Chapter 6. Moreover, in Chapter 4, the conclusions will be used to develop some generic concepts and a conceptual practical approach. The approach will consist of several steps and models derived from organizational science and safety literature. 

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