Product Oriented Safety and Health Management.

摘要

Research into various aspects of the product-oriented shipbuilding approach developed by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (IHI) continues to reveal profound advantages as compared to the traditional system- by-system approach. The product work breakdown structure employed facilitates decentralization of many responsibilities. The net result is improved corporate performance. Ships of better quality are built with less man-hours while maintaining what is perhaps the world's best safety and health record for such industrial endeavor. IHI's safety and health (S&H) program is implemented systematically by the entire corporation. The demonstrated performance of the program is proof that, while instilling S&H consciousness in each employee is important, impressive records can only be achieved when S&H methodology is well planned and decentralized, and when group activities (e.g., Quality Circles) are active. Further, it is essential that the organizational structure for S&H be coincident with the operational structure. In shipyards, product organization fulfills such requirements to a degree that is impossible with functional organizations.