Surveys team performance assessment

Figure 17.9 This generic survey can be used to assess overall team performance.

As with audits, survey results form the basis of a facility-specific report for circulation to facility management and the PSM team. This report may follow the questionnaire format, with responses tabulated and analysis and commentary provided at the end. If necessary, baseline PSM assessments can be performed by a single individual using a survey method. 

A procedure for performing a site assessment survey using a Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Team (SCAT) has been documented in the literature, including a number of SCAT Manuals for different areas of Canada published by Environment Canada. The SCAT concept was developed during the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989. It is a systematic and comprehensive method of data collection that can be used to evaluate shoreline oil conditions if a spill occurs and assist cleanup personnel to develop and plan response actions. The SCAT team usually includes an oil-spill geomorphologist, an ecologist, and an archeologist or land-use specialist. 

The project team shall make a survey of current day and night noise level data in the surrounding facilities. This will help to assess whether permitted noise levels will be achievable, even with the new equipment, at reasonable cost. Otherwise, alternative site selection is required. Heat radiation is another consideration. New facilities shall be installed at places sufficiently far away from heat radiation sources such as flare and flue gas stacks. Heat radiation calculations shall be performed to ensure that the new site is located well within the permitted heat radiation intensity limits. Such limits are given in API 521 (2014). Luminosity is another important consideration for new plant siting this may require taller flare stacks. 

Copthorne made a trip to Washington in the spring of 1944 for consultations in OCCWS, where he gave special attention to his manpower and planning problems. Lt. Col. William A. Johnson, an officer whom Copthorne had several times requested, arrived in the theater during Copthorne s absence to take over the operations and training functions. In June the theater gas warfare plan was revised, and the revision indicated a considerable improvement in the theater situation both with respect to supply and plans. Technical and munitions performance information was still deficient, but a team of two officers sent out to SWPA by OCCWS had made a preliminary survey of requirements for information on gas warfare in the tropics just before Copthorne s departure, and OCCWS was soon to set up a project for assessment of gas in tropical situations in the western hemisphere. ... 

The US Department of Energy, Human Performance Improvement Handbook, Volume II, has several surveys and tools that can be used to aid in defining the organizational safety climate, human performance gap analysis tool, and a job site condihons self-assessment (Volume 2 Human performance tools for individuals, work teams, and management, human performance improvement handbook, 2009). 

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