The ‘7-S’ Frame Work for Safety Management
The ‘7-S’ Frame Work for Safety Management
This article
recall our attention towards a strategic vision about implementation of
Mckinsey’s 7-S Frame work. This frame work was developed in the late 70’s by
Mckinsey Company, a reputed Management consultancy firm in U.S.A. for strategic
planning. In my opinion, in our industry SAFETY also comes under strategic
planning
In
general terms, the proposition of the ‘7-S’ model suggests that there are
multiple factors which influence organizational culture. Since the variables
are inter connected, the significant progress can’t be made in one area unless
corresponding progress is made in other areas too.
RELEVANCE FOR 7-S
SAFETY FRAME WORK
1- SAFETY
STRATAGY:-
Here means to
achieve organizational purpose example.
- Celebration of Safety Week
- Organise Safety Conference Top Management
- Attend Safety council
- Investigate Safety Audit
- Follow up top Management strategies
- Pit Safety Committee Middle Management
- Accident Analyses
- Follow up higher strategies & circulars etc
- General Safety Consciousness’ & IQ Lower Management unit level
- Confidence on field experience
- Tendency to be Careful
1- SAFETY
STRUCTURE:-
It is again an organizational tool
kit. I can say this structure resemble to corporate super structure. It
indicates to what extent activities are specialized and the way in which the
safety tasks are integrated and coordinated.
The channel is
as given below:-
Govt. ---------à
DGMS ----------------------------à ESO-------------------------------------------
= ׀׀
Mission -------à
CMD----------à
D(T)-------à
GM(Safety)----àSAM-----àMgr.----àSO
↓
ISO
------------------------------------------
= indirectly structure --- direct structure
ESO----à External Safety Organization
ISO ----à
Internal Safety Organization
3- SAFETY SYSTEM:-
Rules, Regulations & procedures
constitute ‘System’ in 7-S frame work. So safety systems are complement to the
organizational structure. These systems may also be known as “Infrastructure”
and include subsystems:-
─ Safety
planning and control
─ Safety
training & development
─ Safety
performance evaluation & monitoring
─ Safety capital
budgeting
─ Safety cost
Accounting procedure etc.
4- SAFETY STAFF:-
The term carries a specific meaning
here. It refer to the way organization induct young recruit into main stream of
activities and the manner in which they manage their carreers as the new
entrants develops into managers.
JET/MT-------à Under Manager or -------à Safety ------à
Linked with Safety Structure
Asst. Manager Officer given in (2)
׀׀
Safety Overman
׀׀
Safety
Mining Sirdars
׀׀
׀׀
׀׀ ׀׀ ׀׀ ׀׀
Safety Mazdoor
5- SAFETY SKILLS:-
These skill refer to the
‘distinctive competence’ which reflect the dominate skill of an organization
and may consists competence in terms of managerial and engineering skills.
6- SAFETY STYLE:-
It is an another variable
which may determine the effectiveness of an organizational change effort. Again
style is an aspect of organizational culture.
7- SHARED VALUE OR SUPERORDINATE
GOALS:-
It refers the set of
values and aspirations that go beyond the Formal statement of our mission. In
other words these are fundamental ideas around which the formal statement of
corporate objective can be made as:-
Structure Strategy Systems
Style Skills Super ordinate goals Staff
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