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Eddscott  
#1 Posted : 26 June 2021 09:10:45(UTC)
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Eddscott

Looking for some pointers on the following situation. You are about to start work in a new company as a director or senior head of safety. You need to do a presentation that shows what would you do at 30, 60 and 90 days when you first start and how would you measure success of those actions.. it's a common strategic question.. so any thoughts are helpful
peter gotch  
#2 Posted : 26 June 2021 10:32:14(UTC)
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peter gotch

Morning Edd - far from clear whether this is a purely hypothetical question or one that e.g. you might have been asked to do a presentation for as part of being interviewed for a new job.

But either way, the answer is going to depend on how much you know about the "new company" and equally how much you should know about it.

Your Forum profile and past contributions suggest that you are likely to work for an organisation with a finger in the rail pie.

So, as example, if you work for Network Rail but are being asked to say what you would do in the first 30, 60, 90 days working for a Tier 1 or even Tier 2 Contractor you should be able to do the preparation to give you a good understanding of where that Contractor is in terms of its health and safety management systems and for a senior role you should be aware of the somewhat sensitive issue of their recent prosecution (or whatever) following such and such incident.

Exactly the same applies if you are working for such a Contractor and being asked what you would do if newly working for another such Contractor or Network Rail. 

In contrast, if you were making the same presentation to say a food manufacturer (that your company has no signficant commercial relationship with), it might be unreasonable for the audience to think that you should have a good prior understanding of what makes that organisation tick. They would expect you to have done some homework, e.g. to find out whether or not they have their ISO accreditations but it would be unreasonable for them to expect you to guess how their systems have been developed. You are also less likely to be aware of that "sensitive issue".

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Eddscott on 26/06/2021(UTC)
Eddscott  
#3 Posted : 04 July 2021 20:07:28(UTC)
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Eddscott

So what would you utilise as the mode for assessing the success of the 30-60-90 day plan
stevedm  
#4 Posted : 05 July 2021 17:13:12(UTC)
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stevedm

two things I look at when going into any organisation - risk management and distaster and emergency management (DEMS)...

1. If thier risk management is under control  - risk assessments and actions high risk activities etc.then happy to look at improving the DEMS.  All high risk ascitities should have no outstanding actions (30 days) if not in place resolve within 30 days then medium within 60 and low within 90.

2. If point 1 isn't under control and the DEMS is s**t then panic! Regulated facilities then 3 yearly training plan and update to procedures within 30 days, - annual scenario walkthrough desktop and 3 yearly practical.

Once you start with these two topics you won't starve for topics to add...

Tittensor26376  
#5 Posted : 12 July 2021 13:02:19(UTC)
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Tittensor26376

Hi Edd,

As previous replies, depends which organisation your entering, hopefully you would have done your research on their Health and Safety Culture previously.

For me theres usually 3 courses of attack,

1. Human input and Behaviours, and,

2. Compliance with legislation, and,

3. Safety History, any safety data, responses to accidents and implementation of improvements following accidents, and, any safety suggestions. 

Personally ive found no 1 to give me the most feedback on 'where the company is now' to develop 'where do we want to be' and most importantly 'how do we get there', data is generally created from one persons interpretation of and incident/occurance and can sometimes be a biased opinion on the truth, speaking, listening and responding to employees (at all levels) will most definately help you form some of your own opinions without bias (except your own of course).

So I would say

30 days - review data, spend time with employees (all levels), record findings (for yoruself)

60 days - Develop plan of action - include feedback from all levels, share with key H&S stakeholders - adjust and publish

90 days - Form implementation team (if required), include safety 'champions', sign off by senior Directors, develop measurements for success.

Measurements possibly: reduced accidents, greater employee input (more feedback, higher near miss reporting etc).

just some of my ideas I have used myself (including a new role this year!) hope there usefull for you, obviously this requires more depth, happy to help and good luck (if its yourself).

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CptBeaky on 13/07/2021(UTC)
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