Abstract
Blue Coral Copters Inc. is on a course of gaining prominence. However, such moves may be thwarted if the current, below par safety measures are put in place. Eminently, the organization is faced with an avoidable tragedy, which can be avoided through simple revision of the current security measures. Just like Blue Coral Copters, agencies in the service industry prosper today based on the safety precautions that they offer to their stakeholders. Thus, the much-needed prosperity at Blue Coral Copters Inc. may only be realized if the organization takes new steps in re-engineering their safety measures. From the assertions of different scholars, as evident herein, imp[lamentation of a proper security plan in an organization is a long-term procedure that begins with an identification of the principles over which the safety measures would be anchored followed by a step by step procedure. Predictably, implementation of such a sophisticatedsafety plan to amedium sized organization can be daunting to an organization financially. A choice for key steps in the implementation plan, therefore, is what Blue Coral Copters Inc. may opt for. It is as well worth noting, the fact that, the organization stands to benefit more from implementing a safety plan.
Blue Coral Copters Inc. is slowly becoming a force in its line of operations. However, apart from the fact that Blue Coral Copters Inc. is still on stuck on the baseline in its profitability indices, it is an organization that has the potential of making it big, if only all the organizational units are put into central consideration. Today, organizations catapult their growth indices based on how best they treat their stakeholders, right from human resources to customers, and a mission that Blue Coral Copters Inc. has not been able to explore out effectively based on their fringe safety measures(Gustin, 2008). Today, it is the safety measures adopted by organizations account for the biggest percentage in customer loyalty. To cash cow organizations such as Blue Coral Copters Inc., a change in strategy may be a necessity in catapulting their operations deep into unforeseeable future. This report aims at addressing safety management at Blue Coral Copters Inc. Ultimately, the report develops a fit for purpose safety system that considers the return on investment, cost effectiveness as well as financial and safety perspectives.
Known Risks at Blue Coral Copters
The second known risk factor at Blue Coral Copters Inc. is the unending need to maintain the status quo. All the business industries change, Blue Coral Copters Inc. operational context was inclusive. Such changes can only be dealt with if the organization is flexible enough to allow for an influx of new ideas and systems. Blue Coral Copters, based on the negligible competition that they face, have opted to ignore the changes in sightseeing or copter operations. Instead, they have kept their primary operations intact. Changing the need to maintain status may seem uncomfortable to an organization, it is however not costly and thus worth giving a try.
The third known risk at Blue Coral Copters Inc. has to be employee loyalty. Nick Doobie (founder of Blue Coral Copters Inc. understands the concept of employee motivation effectively. Based on the size of the organization, Doobie finds it easy to relate with each of his employees at a personal level(Gustin, 2008). Such a move has gripped the loyalty of his employee, especially pilots, that they consider the interest of the organization at the expense of their interests. An incident of such devotion is evident in the long hours that employees put in their jobs. Further, there is an occasion where a pilot avoided an emergency landing after a realization of a fault in the copter with a basic reason of saving the organization out of unnecessary costs(Sutton, 2012). More instances of loyalty can be read on the rare occasions when the organization lays off its employees.
Another issue with the safety measures at Blue Coral Copters Inc. has to be with the copters and their operations. Not only are the pilots inadequate for every copter, but they are also operated, occasionally, by unqualified personnel who may not have a better grip of the current needs for safety in their line of operations. Further, the copters are not well checked before or after their duties. Such activities only make the operations in Blue Coral Copters Inc. riskier than most can anticipate. Finally, it is important that Blue Coral Copters Inc. gives effective maintenance to its copters to ensure longevity in operations and safety of the pilot and the passengers. None of that is however taken into consideration at the organization (Sutton,2012).
Finally, organizations put in place basic safety measures based on their short and long term objectives. In as much as Blue Coral Copters Inc. makes a considerable quantity of profits, the management seems to lack a proper financial understanding of their operations(Gustin, 2008). With clear financial and operational guidelines, Blue Coral Copters Inc. would not ignore safety measures as that is core to their success. From the discussion of known risks herein, it is evident that safety issues at Blue Coral Copters Inc. are holistic characteristically and needs addressing right from the principles of safety.
Principles of Safety
Principles of safety are the fundamental platforms through which an organization vests their safety policy so as to ensure long-term outputs. Through principles of safety, Blue Coral Copters Inc.stands a chance of synchronizing their needs for safety, purpose of their organization and ultimately their profitability indices. A successful safety management practices are critically anchored on how best an organization adheres to unique principles relevant to its operations and value chain analysis (Rodrigues & Cusick, 2012).
Out of the structural, financial and cultural aspects of Blue Coral Copters, this report suggests that the organization bases its safety management desire and application across four principles. The first principle of safety at Blue Coral Copters Inc. should be based on organizational policy(Gustin, 2008). Through policy, an organizational image is drawn across its commitment to new safety rules. The policy is a statement of the organization to its responsibility and dedication of making safety a priority of the organization. From a policy, an organization lays foundations for the guidelines that will man their safety demands.
The second principle of safety that is necessary for Blue Coral Copters Inc. is risk management. The entire process of ensuring safety in an organization is risky. Not only does instilling new safety measures may be scary to the current incompetent human resource, but an organization is also at a bigger risk of losing its business portfolio entirely for not following principled avenues in instilling safety management measures within its ranks. Importantly, a risk management platform offers the organization with ways through which they can identify safety management practices that are relevant to their operations, identify the risks involved on top of providing exit strategies on how to mitigate the risks. The process of instilling a risk management unit within a safety management package has its advantage in providing proactive or reactive approaches to failures that an organization may face by implementing an operational safety policy.
Assurance is the third principle of safety that has to be taken into consideration in any case the organization aims at exploring its choices. Notably, in organizational management, change throws its impact across a lo9t of functional units(Gustin, 2008). As for Blue Coral Copters Inc., human resource is at a risk of feeling the turbulences that may be brought about by the need for better safety measures. In such scenarios, the organization may stand a chance of losing its trusted employees while upgrading their safety measures. Such a scenario may not be desirable for a smaller organization whose strategic intent is geared towards profit maximization under utility of minimum resources(Rodrigues & Cusick, 2012). To avoid some of the problems that come with change, thus, Blue Coral Copters Inc. has to put in place assurance as one of the central principles to its safety exploitations. Through the principle of assurance, the management communicates to the organization by telling them how suggested safety needs are good for the long-term operations of the organization. An eye-opening training can be conducted, for instance, to ensure an assertion of assurance. Further, the principle of assurance makes it visible that the organization has cemented its commitment to reaching out to the desired measures for safety.
The last principle necessary for the implementation of a sound safety management strategy in an organization is the promotion. The current communication channels in Blue Coral Copters Inc. are basic and relevant for the interaction between its related units. The same cannot be said of the communication system that can barely be applied in cases of emergency(Hollnagel, 2014). Communication problems emanate from the structure and culture of the organization, which may not allow for the installation of new processes and communication units to ensure efficiency of operations. Through the principle of promotion, the organization asserts its commitment to structural and cultural elevations to ensure undisturbed implementation of an effective safety management system (SMS).
Safety Management System (SMS) for Blue Coral Copters
Out of the principles of safety that are relevant to Blue Coral Copters, a more coordinated process unit is necessary to control and direct resources as it manages safety optimally. From a descriptive point of view, a well-coordinated safety management system may be expensive to a medium sized organization such as Blue Coral Copters Inc. However, after taking a look at the following descriptions and illustrations, the organization would find it necessary to put a sophisticated safety management tool in place(Gustin, 2008). Described below are the steps followed in the formulation of a reputable SMS management tool:
Development of SMS management plan
SMS management plan is the component of safety tool that defines the safety objectives of the organization. In the plan, Blue Coral Copters Inc. should take an analysis of its internal as well as external operations to determine how the implementation of a safety tool to such an organization may be important to the entire business plan. From an SMS management plan, Blue Coral Copters Inc. stands a chance of noticing the deficiencies of a safety measure thereby allocating contingency plans to its usage. Majorly, a medium sized organization may be interested in developing a safety plan with the focus on scenario planning and development of contingency plans in case of any failures of the implemented plan(Hollnagel, 2014). On top of outlining the commitment of the organization to providing safety to its human resource and clients, a safety plan as well outlines the desired structure of the safety tool that is potentially being put in operation. Other elements of the plan detail conveyance of the change to all employees, persuading employees into an agreement with the eminent changes as well as identification of the performance gaps with or without safety measures. Notably, a well-developed plan should detail the structural differences between the safety approaches to be put in place and the existing business approaches.
Safety Promotion
The second step of implementation of a safety management system in a medium sized organization details promotion of the suggested safety platforms. Initially, an organization may only be successful in initiating a change if that change is positively advocated for through the entire organization. In such a course, the management takes an initial initiative of instilling the proposed safety plans under the core values of the organization(Rodrigues & Cusick, 2012). Under safety promotion, the management may further decide to cement their commitment to the course by allocating desirable resources to safety strategy, initiation of procedures, training, and practices that all combine to paint a positive image to the proposed safety measures. Other activities that are central to safety promotion detail publication of statements of commitments throughout the organization, communication of the outputs and benefits of the new safety measures to every stakeholder of the organization, offsetting training services to personnel to aid them in matching up to their new tasks, definition of requirements of competencies to holders of key positions(Hollnagel, 2014). In Blue Coral Copters’ case, the pilots should be made aware of the desires for competency. Sharing the lessons that have been learned through the old safety systems, putting in place strategic feedback systems that promote participation of each and every individual in the organization as well as implementation of a complimentary just culture to support the emergent safety measures are some of the components of promotion that the organization may find desirable in implementing such a desirable but abrupt change.
Data Management and Documentation
Most organizations fail in their need to change or modernize their safety measures they are unable to locate pieces of information that are necessary for the success of the organization. ToBlue Coral Copters Inc. it has to be noted that in as much as the organization may be in need of new safety measures, it has to understand its current concepts. For instance, currently, employees at Blue Coral Copters Inc. are impressed on the drug abuse policy put in place. The new safety package should sort out documentation about drug use in the organization so as to ascertain points that may need adjustments or even flexibility(Rodrigues & Cusick, 2012). Other aspects of data management and documentation include identification and publication of objectives, policies and SMS procedures in such a manner that they can be interesting and simple to understand to the current human resource in place. Ambiguous documents may be unnecessary for medium sized organizations such as Blue Coral Copters Inc.
There is a range of other reasons why documentation and data management is an important step in developing a safety package for an organization. For instance, safety measures change with the change in technology. An organization may require internal documents that validate a change in safety strategy as deemed necessary(Gustin, 2008). Other aspects of documentation detail identification of the industry-wide safety measures, provision of employees with pertinent information that is regulatory, consolidation of documents describing the new systems of safety, provision of change controls, processing changes, prompt removal of obsolete documents as well as the establishment of periodic document review procedures.
Risk Management and Hazard Identification
As evident herein, Blue Coral Copters Inc. has been made well aware of the points of weaknesses in its safety measures. However, in developing a safety plan, the organization desires to come up with a critical strategy of coming up with potential risks and hazards as they mitigate them. Other aspects of hazard identification necessary to the plan detail prioritization of risk management as well as well outlined techniques for tracking the identified hazards(Gustin, 2008). In later dates, the organization may advance their safety measures by developing grids that indicate probability and severity of occurrence. Reporting, incident investigation, and analyses, as well as security assurance oversights, are other steps that are considered in the development of a safety plan under the umbrella of risk management.
Safety Management Training Processes
At Blue Coral Copters, the personnel contributes to the success of the organization centrally. Ignoring the role of such components of the structure may be fatal to a successful implementation of a safety plan. To the pilots, training may be necessary for equipping their skills with the desires of the current standards. Safety orientation, documentation competency, tracking systems as well as the efficient utility of workshops may be desirable to an organization that can potentially face resistance during implementation. The auxiliary steps involved in the safety plan may include emergency preparedness and response practices as well as management of the changes that an organization puts in place.
Suitability to the Organization
Implementation of a reputable safety plan may not be the ultimate end to a safety process. As a matter of fact, safety plans and strategies fail terribly immediately the organizations begin to make losses out of the poor implementation of safety strategies. Importantly, Blue Coral Copters Inc. may not feel the effectiveness of a safety plan in the short run (Hollnagel, 2014). In the long run, however, the organization may begin to feel the input that putting in place reputable safety plans may have in place. Some of the benefits include a fully confident human resource that is well aware of what is desired of them in the organization, reputable image of the organization as customers will get more attracted to the new safety measures, high profitability indices on top of assured operations deep into the unforeseen future. Lack of current safety measures in a business organization may be risky to the existence of the entire organization. For instance, just a single accident involving a Blue Coral Copters Inc. copter will highly be publicized leading to bigger losses in business terms (Gustin, 2008). Blue Coral Copters Inc. is advantaged in that the organization does not require a drastic overhaul of their safety measures, but rather step by step changes depending on the capability of the organization. Based on the fact that most accidents emanate from faults from pilots, hardware or software, training pilots to current standards of safety and development of copter maintenance plans should take the front row in implementation followed by other steps in safety plans.
Conclusion
Organizations in the service industry prosper today based on the safety measures that they offer to their stakeholders. Thus, the much-needed prosperity at Blue Coral Copters Inc. may only be realized if the organization takes new steps in reengineering their safety measures. From the assertions of different scholars, as evident herein, implementation of a proper safety plan in an organization is a long-term procedure that begins with identification of the principles over which the safety measures would be anchored followed by a step by step procedure Predictably, implementation of such a sophisticated safety plan to a medium sized organization can be daunting to an organization financially. A choice for key steps in the implementation plan, therefore, is what Blue Coral Copters Inc. may opt for. It is as well worth noting, the fact that, the organization stands to benefit more from implementing a safety plan.
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