2. Delivering innovative and strategic safety services
focusing on the human element and influencing the
working environment to create safe behaviours.
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5. Short Term Individual Processes
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Provide Safe Systems
of Work
Control Assignments Action Tasks
Manage Change Action New Controls Identify Uncontrolled
Hazards
Take ActionManage RisksAssess Risks
Question
Circumstances
Self Preservation
Primal
Competencies
Dynamic
Competencies
Managerial
Competencies
Group Preservation
6. The Purpose of Competence Management
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Risk
Categorisation
Competencies
Experience
Supervision
Requirement
Competence
Categorisation
Probability
Severity
Other criteria
8. Definitions and Requirements of Supervision Levels
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Autonomous
Able to undertake the specific activity by implementing, maintaining &
monitoring controls without additional supervision.
Routine
Verification and monitoring of controls by a second person at least of a
‘Proficient’ Competence Category.
Enhanced
Verification and monitoring of controls by the responsible supervisor.
Incompetent
The person is not to directly participate in the specific activity.
Verification and monitoring of controls by the responsible supervisor.
9. Short Term Individual Processes
9
Provide Safe Systems
of Work
Control Assignments Action Tasks
Manage Change Action New Controls Identify Uncontrolled
Hazards
Take ActionManage RisksAssess Risks
Question
Circumstances
Self Preservation
Primal
Competencies
Dynamic
Competencies
Managerial
Competencies
Group Preservation
Medium term implementation: identifying training needs
11. Long term use of Organisational Competence
e.g. The ratio of tasks that are autonomous out of the total number of tasks.
i.e. A leading indicator of safety performance with potential to be predictive.
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0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Dashboard of Organisational Competence
OC Recorded
OC Predicted
Threshold
12. Organisation
Competence &
Supervision
Results
Policy
Investigating &
Learning Lessons
Longterm(>1year)Shortterm(<1year)
people levelorganizational level Individual levelOrganizational level
ManagementPlanning &
Risk Profiling
Implementation
Measuring
Performance
ConsultationReviewing
Leadership
Added Value of Organisational Competence
Top management commitment to organisational competence.
Utilises and builds upon existing risk registers.
Short term: assessment of individual competency & supervision for tasking.
Medium Term: resources allocated to where competence improvement needed.
Long Term: potentially predictive measure of safety performance.
Individual responsibility and tasking becomes an integral part of H&S performance.
13. Robin Stowell
MSc CEng CMIOSH
MD Conversulting Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)845 805 9261
Mob: +33 (0)689 684 428
robin.stowell@conversulting.co.uk
www.conversulting.co.uk
‘Risk is not knowing what you are doing.’
- Warren Buffet
… why wait for the accident to find out?
