Guidelines for Managing Process Safety Risks During Organizational Change [Hardcover]

An understanding of organizational change management (OCM) — an often overlooked subject — is essential for successful corporate decision making with little adverse effect on the health and safety of employees or the surrounding community. Addressing the myriad of issues involved, this book helps companies bring their OCM systems to the same degree of maturity as other process safety management systems. Topics include corporate standard for organizational change management, modification of working conditions, personnel turnover, task allocation changes, organizational hierarchy changes, and organizational policy changes.

List of Tables xi

List of Figures xiii

Files on the Web Accompanying This Book xv

Acronyms and Abbreviations xvii

Glossary xxi

Acknowledgements xxiii

Preface xxv

Introduction and Scope 1

1.1   Case Study- Hickson and Welsh LTD, England (1994) 1

1.2   Introduction 3

1.3   The Need for Management of Organizational Change 5

1.4   Organization of the Book 6

1.5   A History of Organizational Change Management 11

1.6   Definitions Related to Management of Organizational Change 16

Corporate Standard for Organizational Change Management 21

2.1 Case Study – BP – Grangemouth, Scotland (2000) 21

2.2 OCM Background 24

2.3 Management Commitment 25

2.4 OCM Policy 26

2.5 OCM Workflow 27

2.6 OCM Procedure 28

2.7 Definition of Organizational Change 29

2.8 Roles and Rel+