Typical organizational responsibilities

Review health and safety reports submitted by outside agencies. 

Attend site health and safety audits reguiariy to appraise the programme s effectiveness. 

Review as appropriate the health and safety programme s effectiveness and make adjustments where necessary. 

Evaluate the functional performance of the health and safety staff and provide guidance or training where necessary. 

Personally review, sign and approve corrective action planned for lost-time accidents. 

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Most typically organizational teams comprise a number of people who have agreed to collaborate on a particular task who come together from time to time to plan and co-ordinate their activities. They will all probably have several, perhaps many, other responsibilities or so-called team memberships. This kind of team might be more appropriately called a collaborative network or a dispersed team rather them just plain team which could have misleading connotations. 

After the foam debris strike - one single event, similar in many ways to the thousands of individual events that occur on a daily basis in all organizations - an organizational response was required. The first response - noticing - is a prerequisite for all other responses, and the biases that direct this act are familiar to organizational scholars (Kiesler and Sproull, 1982 Starbuck and Milliken, 1988). Typically, when one considers such biases, the dimensions that are presumed to affect attention are often restricted to what the nature of the event is, where the event happens relative to the current focus of the organization s lens, when it happens relative to... 

However, a particular position might carry more internal value in your organization than it does in the external marketplace. Then you must define an appropriate person-based compensation level. Therefore, typically some level of internal alignment is used in conjunction with external data to benchmark a position. Benchmark positions are those positions that are easily identified in competitive market salary surveys and are consistently defined by a variety of organizations, which means that most organizations can agree on the job s scope of responsibility and organizational importance. 

In the first step, in-depth interviews are conducted to explore personal attitudes. In these, the independent interviewer should not focus on facts alone, but also on the very personal level of reasons and motivation. Typically, for example, the organizational structure of product areas is not defined by logic, but more often by a manager s personal desire to incorporate highly profitable areas into his own area of responsibility to mask weaknesses in his current portfolio. 

Typically, the organizational safety official is responsible for implementing and managing the hot work permitting procedure. The primary elements required to be incorporated into a viable hot work permit system include a standard operating procedure consisting of (1) a written procedure, (2) a permit, (3) worker training, and (4) fire watch provisions. 

Team members typically have increased responsibility, autonomy, involvement in decision-making processes, and mutual accountability and are responsible for monitoring their own task performance. Self-managed teams usually adopt a flat organizational structure. 

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