Planning common mistakes

Unfortunately, accidents do happen. Chapter 11 helps you understand what to do when you must investigate an accident at your facility. It details how to set up the investigation team, investigate the accident, and document the results, lessons learned, and corrective actions. Companies and governments are learning the hard way the importance of how to communicate an accident to the public. This chapter tells you how to develop a crisis communication plan, common mistakes, and the dos and don ts of communicating with the public during an accident. 

Users should study the site preparation guide from the vendor. Careful planning is required to ensure that the necessary preparations to house the new instrument in the laboratory have been completed prior to installation. Insufficient site preparation causes major inconvenience and long delays in the installation process. It is a waste of time and money to have the service engineer show up in the laboratory but not be able to do anything, due to poor site preparation. It is a common mistake to underestimate the effort and time required for site preparation. 

Many factors are involved in developing a strategy. Your plan must be designed to fit your personal situation. As you plan your retirement, keep in mind these three common mistakes. 

As with strategic planning, the process of business planning produces a written plan. A key point to clarify here is that the business plan needs to be written with the audience in mind. If the decision maker is the chief executive officer (CEO) and/or chief financial officer (CFO), then the plan should be written so that it is applicable to and appropriate for that audience. Business plans that do not consider the audience are less likely to be acted on favorably. A common mistake by authors of business plans (including pharmacists) is to write in a manner that is too technical or detailed, thus failing to hold the attention of executives, who might be the decision makers. 

The intent of this chapter is not to simply criticize a first-time proposal, but rather to show common mistakes that creep into that first proposal. In each section there will be three parts. The first part is the proposal by the student, as submitted. The second part is a list of all reaction types proposed by the student, and the third is the instructor s critique. The comments in the critique are often aimed at specific chemical problems related to that target and will serve as only a brief review of some chemistry. Others, however, are more general and will hopefully illustrate things to avoid while planning a synthesis. The proposals are reproduced exactly as submitted to show the importance that a presentation can make to the visual and conceptual interpretation of the proposal. 

A useful technique is to define the technology based on the maturity model with each step having both a different goal and set of applications. A common mistake that companies make is to tightly integrate applications. Instead, planning is iterative. Technologies are combined to enable what-if analysis to determine the best plan. Only 8 percent of companies today believe that they have what they need to do what-if analysis correctly. 

The role of management in support of behavioral safety changes over time. The first step for management is to decide to implement behavioral safety and commit the resources to support the planning and implementation. A common mistake at this stage is underestimating the resource requirements. Management needs to... 

In summary, this section has illustrated an interagency approach to crisis plan preparation, with suggestions for avoiding common mistakes. The role of the mental health specialist in preparing crisis plans may be one of administrative coordinator or merely as a well-prepared team responder who assists others in a cohesive and efficient response. 

---