Foundation

The release of the new web-site for smart-ISO means at all the times I have talked about blogging has to stop and now I have to do same. Uuumm not sure now BUT I’ll do my best. We all know we are driven by our reactions to our experiences so perhaps a few drivers that have influenced my perspectives

1. 1. Had responsibility for over 300 personnel in 3 flights and 17 sections spread across a whole airfield that required a variety of routine inspections.  Those inspections always resulted in matters being documented and meetings being held.  At many of those meetings similar matters were discussed independently and – occassionaly – different decisions made. This then caused other meetings to be held to resolve the conflicting decisions.  I had that changed so that inspections were co-ordinated. That meant that discussions between ALL parties took place on site, less inspections, less meetings, quicker and more informed meetings,
   2. Whilst in the military I wrote a thesis (was told in my 4 hr Viva that I’d actually written 3 in one) about implementation of the Health and Safety at work act in the Royal Air Force (RAF). At the time we divided things into Accidents and Incidents BUT no-one had carried out any detailed analysis of “people and things” so I did… 11 stations must have been at least 20,000 personnel for a whole year. I also did a national survey of 1580 companies (received loads of stuff) and had a 48% response…was told a unique and very successful response.  I also spent some time analysing and defining management systems and “Organigrams” – still have the spitfire format I drew one in – and the combination of all that was to suggest that the RAF Integrated its air, ground, personnel, etc etc safety management and reporting systems.
   3. Did consultancy on for several Blue Chip companies where I taught Safety Management, Safety Supervision and Risk Assessment. In one case the company was 6,500 strong, spread across 742 acres and – when analysed – broke down into over 30 different business units. I took on a senior position after – as it was put to me – I’d had the biggest Job interview in history – trained around 500 managers, 400 supervisors and almost 1000 on risk assessment. Within a year we – all those trained and involved – had reduced occurrences by 50% which left me with several perspectives
      1. Risk Assessment has to be understandable by ALL for it to have ANY impact
      2. Creating a habit has more success in changing culture than does monitoring behaviour.
      3. Management is Management – no matter the subject…Best Practice is all tit’s all the same.
      4. Without the support, encouragement, “challenges” of those around (360) me none of the above would have been achieved or learnt

OK so after all that I’ll start doing some blogs –  or perhaps rants….

You can always look at my profile in LinkedIN or run through the videos I’ve done in the past to guess more lessons