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High Reliability Organizations (HROs) Can Mitigate Accident Consequences and Can Be Profitable Karlene H. Roberts, PhD Canter for Catastrophic Risk Management Haas School of Business University of California, Berkeley [email protected] 12/14/2012 1

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High Reliability Organizations (HROs) Can Mitigate Accident 

Consequences and Can Be Profitable

Karlene H. Roberts, PhDCanter for Catastrophic Risk Management

Haas School of BusinessUniversity of California, Berkeley

[email protected]

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The Arrow

Work

Management

Operational Staff

Company

Regulators

Government

Actions

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What is an HRO ?

• An organization–conducting relatively error free operations

–over a long period of time–making consistently good decisions resulting in

–high quality and reliability operations

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Poole, R. Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology, 1997, p.276

• In a generation or two, the world will likely need thousands of high‐reliability organizations running not just nuclear power plants, space flight, and air traffic control, but also chemical plants, electrical grids, computer and telecommunication networks, financial networks, genetic engineering, nuclear‐waste storage, and many other complex, hazardous technologies.  Our ability to manage a technology, rather than our ability to conceive and build it, may be the limiting factor in many cases (1997, p. 276).

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Five Components of a HRO

• Process Auditing• Reward Systems• Quality Degradation• Risk Perception• Command and Control

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1.  Process Auditing:

• An established system for ongoing checks designed to spot expected as well as unexpected safety problems.

• Safety drills are in this category, as is equipment testing.

• Follow‐ups on problems revealed in prior audits are critical.

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2.  Reward Systems:• The reward system is the payoff an individual or organization receives for behaving one way or another.  

• Organizational theory points out that organizational reward systems have powerful influences on the behavior of individuals in them. Don’t reward behavior A while hoping for behavior B

• Similarly, inter‐organizational reward systems also influence behavior in organizations.

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3. Quality Degradation:

• Avoiding degradation of quality and/or developing inferior quality: This refers t the essential quality of the system as compared to a referent generally regarded as the standard for quality in one’s industry

• Who is the best in your industry?

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4. Risk Perception:

• There are at least two elements of risk perception; (1) Whether or not there is knowledge that risk exists, and(2) If there is knowledge that risk exists, the extent to which it is acknowledged and appropriately mitigated and/or minimized

• Part two is a logical outgrowth of part one.

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5.  Command and Control Elements:

• Migrating decision making: (the person with the most expertise makes the decision).

• Redundancy: (people and/or hardware), i.e., backup systems exist.

• Senior managers who see the “big picture”: i.e., they don’t micromanage.

• Formal rules and procedures: A definite existence of hierarchy but not necessarily bureaucracy in the negative sense.

• Training.   Training.  Training. 

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High Reliability Organizations

Process auditing- spot the expected and unexpected

Reward & Recognition-Drive the correct behaviors

-Value contribution of the line

Quality Systems

Risk Perception– Knowledge that risks exist?–Extent to which risk is acknowledged and mitigated

Training- High technical

competence

Formal rules and procedures

Senior managers who see the big

picture

Depth/Org. Capacity

Migrate decision making to the

appropriate person

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Commercial Organizations that try to be HROs

• Commercial aviation (all commercial airlines use crew resource management strategies)

• Commercial banking (e.g. S.W.I.F.T)• Health care (e.g. Kaiser Permanente)• Commercial nuclear power production• Maritime/Chemical industry (e.g. Shell, Chevron,  Gard Services)

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Public Organizations that try to be HROs

• Community Emergency Services (e.g. San Bernardino County, CA fire services)

• Manned Space Flight (Columbia Accident Investigation Board)

• U.S. Chemical Hazards and Safety Board• U.S. Department of Energy• U.S. Federal Aviation Administration• U.S. Navy Submarine Command• U.S. Navy Carrier Flight Operations

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Aviation Safety CenterNaval Aviation Maintenance Program

RAG (FRS) Concept InitiatedNATOPS Program

Squadron Safety ProgramSystem Safety Aircraft Design

CRM Aircrew reviewsORMSafety culture

776 aircraftdestroyed in

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Naval Aviation Class AFlight Mishap Rate

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FY03‐all in flightmishaps

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Nuclear Energy Institute Data1985‐2008

Rx Trips/ Scrams

Cost (¢/kwh)

SignificantEvents/Unit

Capacity Factor (% up)

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Impediments to Implementation

• Inadequate resources• Failure to buy‐in from top to bottom• One size does not fit all• Inadequate training• Perception that HRO is a one shot effort• Failure to implement HRO processes

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