Proposal for Management Action Planning (MAP): a new approach to safety management

Technical Report · Thu Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6208602

Woods, D L; Latimer, R M

Management Action Planning (MAP) is a comprehensive approach to managing that prevents oversights when planning organizational activities, solving problems, or making decisions. It is a supplement to the management systems currently used by organizations. MAP is the positive side of the negative fault-finding accident/incident investigation approach to correcting problems. It is a practical, get-the-job-done approach to doing organizational activities with maximum productivity and profit. MAP helps managers ask the right questions so they can avoid oversights that may lead to accidents or incidents affecting people's safety, their productivity, or the outcome of the organization's activities. Most organizational activities involve doing projects, or making changes in normal operations. To do this successfully involves four activity areas: defining the proposed idea, getting ready, doing the project or making the change, and then ending the project or incorporating the change. To avoid oversights in any of these activity areas, managers need to address six general concerns: goals and policies, scheduling, finance, facilities and equipment, procedures and training, and personnel. MAP helps determine which decisions to make, the level at which these decisions should be made, and then how to make them. There are five concerns that need to be considered when getting decision-making information: costs, benefits, risks, human factors, and political impact. Oversights that may affect people's safety or the results of the organization's activity can be avoided when the proper decisions are made at the appropriate organizational level, and with enough of the right information.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Berkeley (USA). Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6208602
• Report Number(s): PUB-5021
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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