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how TO USE THE FOCOS TOOLs
how TO USE THE FOCOS TOOLs
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FOCOS BETA Version 1.0
FOCOS BETA Version 1.0
The first version of the FOCOS software is a simulation tool that helps practitioners in the Offshore Oil Industry to evaluate scenarios for culture safety training. The simulation model allows to understand the impacts of safety practices on High Reliability Principles (HRO).
GETTING STARTED
GETTING STARTED
High Reliablity as a Safety Culture
High Reliablity as a Safety Culture
High-reliability organizations (HRO) are safe and resilient because of the unique mindset they share when approaching situations, making decisions, and leading people. These mindsets or HRO principles are ways of thinking that are more influential than the protocols in training manuals.
What is a safety practice?
What is a safety practice?
A safety practice is an initiative , commonly used in the offshore industry, to improve communication, leadership and training in coordinated efforts with the goal to remove known obstacles of safety.
What is a strategy?
What is a strategy?
A strategy is a scenario that consists in the application of one or more safety practices. in the FOCOS software, you can create, manage and compare strategies.
What are the HRO Principles?
What are the HRO Principles?
1.Preocupation with Failure
1.Preocupation with Failure
A mindset of precaution and prevention that treats any weakness, failure, or near-miss as a sign of potentially large-scale issues.
2.Reluctance to Simplify
2.Reluctance to Simplify
The tendency to question assumptions, think critically, and shift perspectives in order to get a complete and nuanced picture of what is happening.
3.Sensitivity to Operations
3.Sensitivity to Operations
The state of awareness of the employees for their intimidate tasks, as well as the overall status of the operations - technology, people, and processes.
4.Commitment to Resilience
4.Commitment to Resilience
The capability and attitude to quickly notice, contain, and learn from errors and use them to bounce back to normal operations.
5.Deference to Expertise
5.Deference to Expertise
In case of unexpected events, decision-making power shifts to the person(s) with the most knowledge about the issue.
How to use the Software?
How to use the Software?
Step 1
Step 1
Plan Strategies
Activate several safety practices, preview their effects on HRO principles and create new strategies.
Step 2
Step 2
Manage Strategies
Retrieve saved strategies, add descriptions and analyze outputs.
Step 3
Step 3
Compare Strategies
Evaluate the output of two or more strategies to measure the impact of safety practices in your organization.
Step 4
Step 4
Apply strategies with your team
Implement safety practices. Get support from our guidance book to learn how to put them on practice.
BEHIND THE MODEL: FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPPING
BEHIND THE MODEL: FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPPING
In organizations that depend on complex relationships among people, technology , mindsets, and policies, system behavior fills a key role in culture safety. Implementing safety practices can trigger a cascade of changes.
Changes that not only have immediate impacts, but also an effect other fundamental principles. FOCOS software is mean to simulate these complex situations using a model that simulates the culture safety environment with the aid of cognitive mapping.
FREQUENTLY ASKED questions
FREQUENTLY ASKED questions
What are the slider bars for?
What are the slider bars for?
The slider bars allow you to activate a safety practice. It simulates the percentage of effort applied for a specific practice in the training plan. Since culture training is a combined effort, you can distribute your resources on several practices based on your available capacity.
What is a radar chart ?
What is a radar chart ?
The radar chart helps to visualize the effect of your culture training strategy on the five dimensions of the HRO principles. You can use this chart to compare your strategies. The more area is covered, the most positive influence your strategy has on the organization.
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