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Is Quality a Factor in Considering Your Company’s Organizational Health?

Behavior-based quality: How do you act when no one is looking?

Arron Angle
Mon, 06/07/2021 - 12:03
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Iwas talking to a friend recently, and the subject of organizational health came up. With my quality background my ears perked up, and I asked him to explain what he thought organizational health meant.

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The friend went on for several minutes explaining that organizational health was all about six main sectors of a fishbone diagram which he described as: policies, experience and knowledge, process safety, operational reliability, engagement, and occupational health and safety. Of course, each bone of the “fish” contained sub-elements that expanded the definition of each sector. Health, he said was the measure of cultural awareness, management attention, focus, discipline, and training afforded to each element and sub-element.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 06/07/2021 - 20:34

Quality is fundamental to any

Quality is fundamental to any organization. Without quality, it would not be possible to even begin to manage safety. Process safety is something that is even higher up the ladder. Culture is much more important than policies as a policy can be just a piece of paper in many organizations. Behavious-based Safety has turned out to be a "Big Bull Shit" in many organizations so hopefully BBQ will have a better fate. Yes, safety can be a cause of poor quality but quality almost always improve safety. I think BBQ has a higher chance of success than BBS but unfortunately most management is more focused on short-term profits.

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