Best Practices in Health and Safety Management
Determine roles, staffing levels and budget requirements for your health and safety organization. This Best Practices Benchmarking® Report will help your operations and maintenance (also referred to as technical support or engineering services) organization parcel its various roles and responsibilities, staffing levels and budget requirements between corporate overseers and decentralized executors. This research will also enable you to compare your current staffing levels, budgets, roles and responsibilities, and performance measurements against those of leading operations and maintenance organizations.
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Industries Profiled:
Manufacturing; Medical Device; Pharmaceutical; Financial Services; Service; Retail; Research; Computer Software; Diagnostic; Health Care; Transportation; Biotech; Clinical Research; Consulting; Distribution; Insurance; Hospitality; Telecommunications; Technology; Professional Services; High Tech; Automobile; Utilities; Energy; Consumer Products; Chemical; Electronics; Banking; Computers; Entertainment; Internet; Computer Hardware; Aerospace; Academic; Media; Education; Newspapers; Government; Shipping; Office Supplies; Office Equipment; Cable; Defense; Military; Diversified; Sports; Advertising; Science; Technology; Multiple; Logistics; Publishing; Market Research; Marketing; Public Relations; Medical; Architecture; Engineering; Communications; Aviation; Legal; Test Industry; Non-Profit; Business; Orthopaedics
Study Snapshot
This Best Practices Benchmarking® Report profiles a highly-regarded group of companies that have proven health and safety innovation and leadership in place. These companies have not only demonstrated effective operating principles and winning strategies in health and safety management, but they have also developed innovative methods for driving health and safety as a key corporate strategy.
This study also includes extensive analysis of benchmark partners' health and safety staffing and budgeting levels and practices. By studying other organizations’ best practices in health and safety management, your company can better understand how to allocate budget and staffing resources, create a corporate culture driven by health and safety awareness, and gain recognition for health and safety innovation and leadership.
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Key Findings
This health and safety research uncovered general trends affecting corporate and business unit health and safety organizations across multiple industries. Best Practices, LLC identified and profiled many of the tactics and most effective practices embedded in these companies' winning health and safety management strategies. Survey data and best practices interviews reveal the following key lessons learned:
- Coordinated strategies and processes – Benchmark findings suggest that all benchmark partners regard employee health and safety as one of the most important and far-reaching company priorities. For this reason, companies seek to create common health and safety philosophies, strategies and processes. To ensure health and safety consistency and promote an overall health and safety culture, leading benchmark companies coordinate key strategies and activities through a centralized oversight department, such as corporate health and safety. Specifically, best practitioner health and safety organizations coordinate company health and safety standards objectives, basic training design and requirements and performance metrics through a central health and safety function. Companies also recognize that business units have unique health and safety differences and allow individual units and plants to focus health and safety efforts within corporate guidelines.
- Health and safety centers of expertise – Top companies create centralized centers of expertise to coordinate strategies and processes. Health and safety centers of expertise drive company health and safety strategies and consult on health and safety matters for the entire company. Typically employees staffed to expertise groups have specialized health and safety qualifications, sit at the corporate and global business unit levels and report to a senior executive at corporate headquarters. Advanced companies use health and safety expertise groups to create the company’s health and safety philosophy and strategy, communicate specific standards, design company training modules, use technology to make important health and safety information globally accessible and consult regularly with business units. Benchmark partners report that central centers of health and safety expertise help to avoid duplication of efforts, drive a health and safety culture, provide a central location for health and safety performance results and promote global thinking.
- Technology-driven health and safety awareness - Advanced benchmark partners drive health and safety awareness through e-learning, standardized workstations, corporate intranets and computerized best practices and hazard incident databases. Technology allows companies to maintain central controls on important health and safety activities - such as training and measurements - while pushing information to the entire company to build health and safety awareness.
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