Prejob planning

Having an effective management of change/prejob planning system in place would have reduced the probability of serious injuries and fatalities occurring in the operational categories shown above. 

The data clearly establishes that the potential for serious injuries and fatalities occurring can be diminished by having a MOC/prejob planning system in place as a separately identified element within an Occupational Risk Management System. (Additional comments can be found in Chapter 9, Management of Change/Prejob Planning ). 

Management of change/prejob planning must be a separate and emphasized element within an Operational Risk Management System. 

Additional and substantial support for having a management of change/prejob Planning system in place comes from a study led by Thomas Krause, Chairman of the Board at BST (This data was provided in personal communication with Dr. Krause. BST is to publish a paper including it.) Seven companies participated in a study made in... 

Prejob planning shortcomings were noted in 29 percent of the incidents that had serious injury or fatality potential. For the nonserious injury potential group, prejob planning inadequacies were identified in 17 percent. Prejob planning is another name for management of change. 

Experience in the auto industry is a convincer for having MOC/ prejob planning systems in place. A United Auto Workers (UAM) bulletin for the period 1973 through 2007 (no longer available) indicated that 42 percent of fatalities occurred to skilled-trades workers, who are about 20 percent of the membership. UAW personnel provided data in... 

This chapter makes the case that having an effective Management of Change/Prejob Planning System in place as an element within an Operational Risk Management System will reduce the potential for serious injuries. In this chapter ... 

Types of maintenance operations for which prejob planning and safety reviews would be beneficial because of inherent hazards. 

The Prejob Planning and Safety Analysis system shown in MOC Example 1, a one-page outline, was developed because of adverse... 

Prepared the data necessary to convince management and shop floor personnel to try the prejob planning system they proposed. 

At the beginning of each of those sessions, a management representative introduced the subject of Prejob Planning and Safety Analysis and discussed the reasons why the new procedure was being adopted. Statistics on accident experience prepared by safety professionals were a part of that introduction. 

At this location, supervisors took to the prejob planning and safety analysis system when they recognized that the system made their jobs easier, improved productivity/efficiency, and reduced the risks. And they took ownership of the system. As one of the safety professionals said Our supervisors and workers have become real believers in the system. And a culture change had been achieved. 

Note the requirements under the caption Upon Job Completion in the Prejob Planning and Safety Analysis Form. The detail of the requirements reflects the contributing factors for incidents having sig-niflcant adverse results that occurred over several years. It is recommended that every MOC system include similar procedures that are to be followed before the work can be considered completed. 

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