Developing a High Reliability Organization
This one-day workshop explores how high reliability organizations (HROs) — such as nuclear power plants, hospitals, and aircraft carriers — maintain exceptional performance even in high-risk, high-pressure environments. Learners will discover the five core HRO principles, understand the roles of mindfulness, expectations, and normalization in crisis prevention, and gain practical auditing tools to build resilience in their own organizations.
What you'll learn
- Define the characteristics of a high reliability organization (HRO)
- Define key concepts required for high reliability, including mindfulness, expectations, and normalization
- Describe the five principles governing HROs: preoccupation with failure, resistance to simplification, sensitivity to operations, commitment to resilience, and deference to expertise
- Apply the anticipation principles to identify and prevent potential failures
- Apply the containment principles to minimize the impact of negative events
- Audit organizational activities at all stages to assess and improve reliability
