June 2009
The June 2009 issue of Professional Safety Magazine includes an article co-authored by RPT Safety & Health Services Partners Donna Cangelosi Crossman, Richard Crossman, and Julie Lovely. Entitled "Human Performance Improvement: Sustaining Safety Excellence," the article provides both a discussion of the theoretical underpinning of The FailSafe Workplace Sustainability System and offers many examples of practical application.

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The FailSafe Workplace® Sustainability System
A Revolutionary Safety Management Paradigm

Effective safety management requires coordination of three facets—technical, social, and economic. Current safety management practice addresses each dimension in isolation. However, The FailSafe Workplace® (patent pending) is designed to tie together these three critical strands, enabling attainment of program sustainability and achievement of World Class Safety performance. The FailSafe Workplace® Management System is, first and foremost a performance improvement strategy that integrates with any existing safety program, and secondarily a culture building tool. Rooted in the principles of Human Performance Technology, The FailSafe Workplace® has overwhelming power to target and mitigate “acceptable” risks that thwart program sustainability and ensure a continuous course of upward improvement. Characteristic of the strategy is the low cost/high impact nature of performance interventions, which positively impact the bottom line, both short term and long range.

If your safety program lacks a formal, systematic sustainability strategy, your program is to a large extent luck dependent. Incidents will occur periodically "out of the blue," and there never seems much you can do about them. The FailSafe Workplace® Sustainability System is a method for reducing the luck factor and increasing the odds significantly for success.

HPT is a branch of study, drawing best practices from numerous established disciplines, including psychology, education, sociology, organizational management, systems theory, and economics. HPT is unlike other change initiatives like TQM, Six Sigma, or Lean, as its focus is on improvement of human capital rather than process enhancement. As a safety sustainability process, HPT targets latent, deeply embedded risks that presuppose human error and undermine system reliability. The hallmark of HPT is the low cost/high impact nature of interventions. Research indicates that HPT implementations provide on average an 8:1 return on investment.

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Achieving exemplary and sustained safety outcomes requires the ability to engineer the technical and the social/human components of safety. Traditional safety management certifications (OHST, ASP, CSP) test for technical competence, but assess only superficially the competencies necessary for human capital management. An FSW® certification is validation that course participants have achieved a mastery level in human performance management, and possess the knowledge and skills necessary to produce safety outcomes that are sustainable and World Class.

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