RACKETman, pro-active risk identification and assessment methodology for organisational change

Publisher Summary Sub business unit Surfactants Europe (SBU SE) is formed out of two existing SBU's and the management team immediately started the work to join these two parts. The economic situation for the SBU called for various improvements. Although RACKETman was developed in an ad hoc situation under great time stress, it proved to be a systematic and structured way of working for the difficult and sometimes abstract area of risk analysis. RACKETman is a two step method. First risk identification and prioritization is done and then detailed studies, based on detailed work task breakdown, are performed with risk assessment. RACKETman is based on four major concepts: (1) determining an organization's ability to perform safely; (2) structure and clearness of responsibilities and authorities, (4) the coworker's competence and knowledge, and (4) the organization's work with education and training. RACKETman's pro-active and preventive approach has proven to be quite unique for risk analysis of organizational change. A side effect of this structured approach was also noticed in the organization.