Management of Change-Strategies to Address SHE as well as Personal Performance During Times of Change

摘要

Times, they have been changing! Times of downsizing, upsizing, re-engineering, reorganization, restructuring, etc. present challenges for the safety, health and well-being of all levels of employees on and off the job. For safety, health and responsible treatment of the environment to become integral to your organizational culture, during these and/or stable times, each of these elements must be viewed by all levels of employees as essential to the productivity process. Safety, health and the environment must be on par with quality, the production process, cost management, etc. Everyone must recognize their responsibility and accountability for the well being of one another and the world we live in. Critical to achieving this objective is management's commitment to choose those actions which will demonstrate a concern for the person and the environment. The organizations' culture must be enhanced so that safety, health and the environment are viewed and demonstrated by all as key values and priorities. Consciously or unconsciously, times of change can transfer time, energy, focus, attention, and resources to other priorities. The vision or ideal state of the company, as viewed and held by both management and labor leaders must include the safety, health and well-being of all of its' employees and the people they influence, locally and globally, and be translated into everyday activities to insure that safety, health and environmental incidents do not occur during these challenging times.