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A
simpler way to manage safety improvement
SkillForge
Safety Module
was designed to simplify the work of detailed safety program evaluation.
SkillForge Safety is designed to
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simplify safety surveys or audits
- provide
more meaningful diagnostic and management information about your
safety program
- help
prioritize improvement activities and create budgets
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reduce the cost of safety program administration
- communicate
much clearer performance expectations for safety programs
- perform
comparable period-to-period comparisons along with new baseline
assessments that include added program elements
SkillForge Safety Module allows users to build lists of questions
to test the completeness of program oversight and components, program
communications and actual performance.
Question
entry and weighting screen
 The
entry screen lets users categorize audit questions and weight them
by importance in four areas. Users can also provide screen prompts
that will help guide individual performing assessment.
Define
and measure safety in terms of observable, measurable behaviors
With
Skillforge, users can delineate management expectations as explicit
tasks or performance. This allows companies to shape the parameters
of safety within their organization and provide concise work plans
for safety improvement. SkillForge Safety enables users to
- Define
and categorize all the elements that should be present in a comprehensive
safety program (see below).
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Create questions that test for the presence or absence of all
elements, including administrative structure and audits, safety
program components, communications, training and compliance.
- Assign
values to the relative importance of each element based on its
potential impact on personnel, operations, financial impact and
regulatory compliance. · Automatically score site results and
report deficiencies and improvement opportunities.
- Create
corrective plans and budgets with a SkillForge Safety utility
that prioritizes activities based on item-value weightings.
Improvement
planning report
 SkillForge
lets users enter tasks and budget estimates for improvement planning
on any item that is not scored as 100 percent.
SkillForge
Safety is designed to test for the presence or the absence of key
safety elements and compliances
Skillforge Safety measures actions and results, not activities.
This assessment approach provides more meaningful definitions of
problems and opportunities. It provides direct diagnostic information
managers can use to guide improvement. (See behavioral
analysis for more information.)
How
SkillForge Safety develops diagnostic questions
Program oversight and infrastructure
If safety is safe actions and safe equipment, the first goal of
management is to ensure that these elements are clearly defined
in procedures and specifications. Questions that test the adequacy
of the safety management structure appraise the current program
configuration. Survey questions enable users to evaluate:
- the
adequacy of processes to define equipment safety specifications
and include safety specs in engineering and change management
- how
the organization determines the need for procedures
- the
adequacy of current procedures and procedure review processes
- the
existence and quality of management-of-change processes including
engineering safety reviews and procedures mandates
- the
planning and review structure of ongoing safety activities · the
record-keeping system used to track program components
Communicating
safety information
Given adequate oversight and infrastructure, safe operations require
that employees have all the information they need to work within
the safety program. So it is very important to test how well information
is communicated to the employees and how well they are able to apply
it. Using SkillForge Safety users can create additional questions
to assess safety communications and training:
- the
existence of and performance according to formal and informal
communications programs
- training
completions and testing
Compliance
Even when employees have the necessary knowledge and tools, they
sometimes fail to conform to safety procedures because of other
factors influencing them. Safety Compliance questions let you assess
conformance with safety specifications on the job:
- observations
of employee actions
- equipment
checks
- facility
walk-through checklists
- housekeeping
Software
features
The SkillForge Safety safety assessment software captures, analyzes
and reports audit data. The computer-guided questionnaire simplifies
surveys:
- computer-driven
audit questionnaire
- easy-to-interpret,
zero-to-one scoring (auto-calculated)
- summary
scoring and individual safety category scoring
- simple,
accurate assessment of the state of your safety program
- explicit
deficiency punch lists and budget allocation planning
- multi-level
results roll ups—automated, multilevel aggregation and analysis
· Comes pre-loaded with representative survey questions
- audit
question skeleton provided with program— existing audit questions
- point-and-click
handling of exceptions
Users
can rank individual survey/audit items; automatically develop and
prioritize lists of deficiencies; identify improvement opportunities;
analyze and budget for corrective action; make period-to-period
comparisons on same question sets; and appraise performance based
on SkillForge Safety evaluations. SkillForge Safety screens make
it easy to define all the categories of activity in your program
and enter questions you write. Consultation is available to assist
you with implementing, enhancing and maintaining SkillForge Safety.
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