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Leading Indicators FY2010 EFCOG Semi-Annual Meeting. Roland Knapp Contractor Assurance Working Group Chair Los Alamos National Laboratory December 8, 2009. Key actions in 2009. January: presentation on draft EFCOG process for developing leading indicators Balance mission and safety metrics
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Leading IndicatorsFY2010 EFCOG Semi-Annual Meeting Roland Knapp Contractor Assurance Working Group ChairLos Alamos National Laboratory December 8, 2009
Key actions in 2009 • January: presentation on draft EFCOG process for developing leading indicators • Balance mission and safety metrics • January: update to DNFSB • May: CAWG session on leading indicators joint with ISM F&I Sub-group • Presentations from 5 sites • Summer: engaged Bill Roege, DOE HS-30 andEarl Carnes, DOE-HQ
Variety of perspectives(May EFCOG CAWG meeting) • Fluor (Hanford/SRS) – SPC applied to variety of personal safety data • B&W (Y-12) – facility/equipment/maintenance data related to production • B&W (Pantex) – relationship of work and external environment (weather) • URS (WSRC) – safety/radcon data • Sandia – trending lagging indicators
Variety of perspectives(Other SMEs) • Winokur (DNFSB): link mission and safety; monitor people, processes, and equipment • Hopkins (ANU): personal versus process safety; need enough data to trend • Carnes (DOE): Leadership, Learning/Just Culture, and Worker Involvement • Mallory (LANL): attitude measures – safety, quality, security • Amerine (B&W): trending hierarchical KPIs • Stevens (Pantex): analyze precursor events and assessment issues
Leading indicators: the lure • Identify and fix problems before • People get hurt or killed • The environment is compromised • Critical assets are lost or damaged • Organization goals are not achieved • Mission milestones are missed • Costs proliferate • Profit disappears Risk mitigation leading to improved performance
Leading indicators: the challenge • Drowning in data, thirsting for knowledge • Identifying the data that’s important • Getting people to report it, accurately • Analyzing it for meaningful trends • Organizations are nonlinear, dynamic systems • Using performance measures as a management tool, NOT just a reporting tool
Leading indicators: the trends! • Take an integrated approach (mission, safety, security, environment, … are linked!) • Collect data from a variety of perspectives: people, processes, facilities/equipment, external factors that affect the above • Trends are more important than absolute values – frequency of data collection is key • Using the data to manage is more important than whether it’s leading or lagging
Path forward • Develop EFCOG guide to performance indicators • Form small team from CAWG to draft guide • Solicit input from other EFCOG working groups • Review by full CAWG and ISM F&I Subgroup • Focus on key questions each organization needs to ask and answer • Leads to non-prescriptive results tailored to the needs (and size) of any organization • Compare results through CAWG
Outline for guide • Key is figuring out what data is relevant • Determine what you want to achieve • Identify the bad things you don’t want to happen • Look at the critical success factors • People (human performance, attitudes, training) • Processes (how work gets done) • Facilities/equipment (condition, work environment) • External environment (key factors that affect the above) • Indicators of Changing Performance (INPO 01-005) captures many of the key factors
Collaboration with other WGs • Partnering with EFCOG working group members to identify and refine common operational leading indicators • Working with DOE/NNSA Headquarters functional managers to improve linkage between the Line Oversight Contractor Assurance System (LOCAS) metrics process, other metrics efforts, and the EFCOG leading indicator initiative
Problems/Issues • Achieving consensus on the “correct set” of key performance indicators – needs to be tailored to organization/application • Scarcity of quantitative metrics in some areas • Establishing a demonstrable and sustainable set of metrics that have a cause-and-effect relationship to desired outcomes • Transitioning from reactionary management (i.e., responding to ORPS and IMI events) to proactive management (i.e., reviewing and adjusting based on predictive data, trends, and actionable metrics) • Active and continual engagement by management and workforce in the metric process