Features
- Purpose: Remove incentive to trade safety for output
- Core practices: Scorecard tracking barrier health, overdue actions, near-misses, and learning quality
- Triggers: Annual target-setting; project mobilization; mid-year recalibration
- Roles: Senior leaders approve weighting; HR embeds in rewards; Finance validates data integrity
- Monitoring: Bonus mix; high-quality safety work trend; evidence of "gate-kept" plans
- Safeguards: Independent review to prevent gaming or overreliance on easy metrics
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Conflict Identification and Resolution
Features
- Purpose: Surface and resolve competing objectives explicitly
- Core practices: Structured template for conflicts, mitigation strategies, escalation path, rationale, and dissent capture
- Triggers: Emerging conflict (e.g., schedule slip vs. critical control impairment)
- Roles: Cross-functional quorum (Ops/Project/HSE/Finance)
- Monitoring: Issues identified and resolved; quality of learning actions from decisions
- Safeguards: Post-decision review to detect hindsight drift toward production bias
Features
- Purpose: A simple way to stop work when pressures rise or safety controls are absent
- Core practices: Verbal stop; supervisor acknowledges; hazard clarified; controls added before restart; stop recorded
- Triggers: Unclear task, missing/failed control, changing conditions, fatigue
- Roles: Universal authority; leader response time standard; supervisor records stop; no-reprisal rule monitored
- Monitoring: Number of stops, time to resolution, recurrence rate, worker confidence surveys
- Safeguards: Investigate absence of stops over time or across locations
Features
- Purpose: Counter overly optimistic deadlines and insufficient resourcing
- Core practices: Pre-job "capacity check," buffers by risk class, dedicated time for maintenance
- Triggers: Before starting or re-starting any significant activity
- Roles: Planner, supervisor, HSE; PM owns re-planning when conditions drift
- Monitoring: Forecast bias (promise vs. actual); buffer consumption
- Safeguards: Gatekeeping — work cannot start without safety-resource confirmation