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Risk Management, Safety Management and Loss Control
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4.1.1.15. Process - Do, carry out standing plan
This is where people go to work in accordance with Management System objectives and guidelines set. This is where it all comes together. Here and only here is where practice is turned into success, all the previous steps are there to provide the best opportunity for this one to become successful.
Here is where policy turned into commitment affects behavior and attitude, creating a new company culture. If it fails here, everything else has been futile but if done properly, success is imminent. Here is where leadership by example gets meaning.
Evaluation of activities and their results are vital in this part of the process as well as the continuous improvement that comes from that.
Purpose of this step is to carry out the activities as intended by the element description (ref. 8 and 12).
See also RATING.
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THE principle of RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
"The greater the departure of any planned change from the accepted ways of the past, the greater the potential resistance by the people involved.