Change Management Audit Program, Change MAP ― How to Integrate Organizational Change into Safety Management: Criteria for Change Management and Its Assessment

摘要

We are quite confident that the parameters defined are able to capture relevant aspects of change management and help to weaknesses in their change management. Generally it may contribute to raise awareness of companies to the importance of the human element in organizational changes. Many company proactive in safety matters have already incorporated the organizational change process in their common management of change (MOC) procedure. Companies started evaluating formally the potential impact on safety that could result from organizational changes prior to making the changes. Not only major organizational changes such as merger and acquisition, downsizing and BPR but organizational changes of smaller extend such as changes in roles and responsibilities, staffing levels and organizational structure are covered. In order to study the presumed relationship between change management and safety, however, a number of audits will have to be carried out allowing to measure both the company's change management and its safety standards, such as compliance with safety management requirements and actual safety indicators like incidents, near misses, and recordable injury rates. Currently, a project in cooperation with a nuclear inspectorate is underway to use the change management parameters as part of organizational regulations, helping to define standards for appropriate change management within safety management standards.