Synopses & Reviews
Learn to Implement an Effective, Coherent Management System with Quality and EH&S Tools How would you like to streamline health and safety and environmental programs into the everyday operations of your organization? Reduce rework, breakage, and worker's compensation claims while increasing productivity, efficiency, and profitability? In Organizational Mastery with Integrated Management Systems, Michael Noble answers these questions and much more. Presenting an integrated, no-nonsense approach to process risk management, Noble guides you through all the steps necessary to establish a quality management system that incorporates environmental health and safety (EH&S) concerns. He brings together ideas from both Quality and EH&S, providing a wealth of proven techniques that can be easily tailored to your specific organizational needs. Useful checklists, guidelines, process flowcharts, and risk analysis methods are included along with appendices containing management and technical audits you can use to develop your own audit tool. You'll learn to:
* Develop effective strategies for assessing, managing, and mitigating risks
* Make audits a simple extension of well-run operations and processes
* Integrate ISO 9000, ISO 14000, and OHSA's 18000 systems
* Choose from the best-of-the-best of TQM, Deming, and Crosby
* Identify and correct "Multiple Root Causes" of accidents or process failure
* Enhance process improvement through employee/customer satisfaction
* And much more
Review
"...highlights concepts that can help manage and mitigate risks. Topics include safety as a key element of process improvement..." (Professional Safety, Vol. 46, No. 6)
"...Noble explains how to establish a quality management system that incorporates environmental health and safety concerns." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 24, No. 4, December 2000)
"It is easy to follow and should be studied by management specialists in academia, industry and government." (Int Jnl of Environment Studies, Vol.58 2001)
Synopsis
Die Einhaltung allgemein anerkannter Standards des Qualit ts- und Umweltmanagements ist im Zeitalter der Globalisierung der Wirtschaft unumg nglich. Dieses Buch hilft Professoren und Managern, Managementsysteme f r Qualit t, Sicherheit, Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutz zu integrieren, Risiken zu identifizieren und beherrschbar zu machen sowie Schadensersatzklagen vorzubeugen. Gleichzeitig sollen Produktivit t, Effektivit t und die Zufriedenheit der Angestellten gesteigert werden. (08/00)
Synopsis
MICHAEL T. NOBLE is Director of Consulting Services for Liberty International Risk Services in Boston. With over two decades in environmental health and safety risk management, he has taught at Southern Illinois University, California State University, and the University of California, and has developed course and technical materials for such clients as the Department of Labor (OSHA) and the Naval Shipyards.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-297) and index.
Table of Contents
Controlling the Dragon -
The Integration of Management Systems.
Building Safer, More Productive Jobs!
Management Commitment: Policy and Planning.
Plan Implementation.
Risk Assessment Process.
Risk and Operational Control.
Measurement and Evaluation.
Nonconformance and Incident Investigation.
Management Review and Continuous Improvement.
Conclusion.
Appendices.
References.
Index.