Environmental, Health, and Safety Organizational Assessment and Optimization
ScottMadden frequently works with organizations to assist in their organizational assessment and optimization efforts. Contact us to learn how we can help support your organizational restructuring projects.
At A Glance
Employee Interviews
Conducted interviews with more than 20 EH&S employees
Benchmarking Assessments
Performed benchmarking assessment to compare EH&S structure and operations to industry peers
Organizational Structure
Designed new organizational structure to address current state issues
Challenge
A large investor-owned utility was interested in conducting a current state assessment to assess its organization and practices against other companies, provide an understanding of what EH&S activities are performed in which organizations within the company, and identify overlaps of EH&S functions with other organizations. In addition, the utility desired recommendations to address the key findings, options for potential reorganization of the EH&S organization, and the identification of key areas of focus for future departmental initiatives.
Process
- Administered a work activity assessment, through which EH&S employees allocated their time to individual work activities to provide a view into the current state of EH&S activities, resources, and costs of service
- Collected and analyzed data provided such as available metrics, communication channels, customers, budget, and job descriptions
- Conducted interviews with more than 20 EH&S employees and internal customers to understand operations, identify strengths and challenges, and highlight areas for further investigation
- Interviewed peer utilities through a qualitative benchmarking assessment to understand the structure of their EH&S organizations, what services they provide, and how they manage data and reporting
- Developed and proposed various new organizational structures to better align with peer approaches to EH&S and address current state findings
- Conducted workshops with leaders at varying levels in the organization to test the viability of recommendations
- Developed a high-level implementation plan for recommendations
Result
- Provided recommendations to address key findings, increase organizational efficiency, and enable EH&S to strategically increase service(s), while remaining cost neutral
- Designed a new functional organizational structure to better align with peer organizations and address key current state findings
- Developed a high-level roadmap for implementing the recommendations and proposed organizational structure
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