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All in High Reliability
This post provides one possible design for the organization, technology, training, staffing, and resources to manage the risks of shipboard fire. It is not THE answer, just one of many possible answers.
This post is a continuation of my observations from the USS BONHOMME RICHARD fire. It is a decision exercise rooted in High Reliability Organizing (HRO). How would YOU design the organization, technology, training, staffing, and resources to manage the risk of foreseeable occurrences like a shipboard fire?
BLUF: My observations about errors in the standard helm commands and courses to station in the movie Greyhound. Standard helm commands are one way the U.S. Navy maintains high reliability in ship control.
There are few facts available about the fire aboard the USS BONHOMME RICHARD (LHD 6), but lots of assumptions and opinions. This post provides an HRO introduction to the fire. It starts with the basic facts associated with Navy ship fire safety. It continues with some observations causes of serious shipboard fires. It concludes with the need to treat shipboard fire safety as a system.
This post provides an overview of High Reliability Organizing (HRO) and the research on it. I distinguish high reliability organizing, the principles and practices that yield superb performance, from high reliability organizations, collections of people working to create high reliability. I focus on the principles and practices of organizing to achieve high reliability (High Reliability Organizing) what the people in the organizations DO and WHY rather than on the organizations themselves. This blog is about the organizational design practices for active management to reduce failure and increase the reliability of important outcomes.
This post is an introduction to my writings on High Reliability Organizing (HRO). I have a different perspective than others because I am both an organizational scholar and have decades of experience as an HRO practitioner. The blog is a way for me to explore those different ideas and share them with others.
