Writing Effective Recommendations for Incidents, PHAs, LOPAs, MOCs, Reviews, Projects, and Audits (Ohio T&M)

In Writing Effective Recommendations for Incidents, PHAs, LOPAs, MOCs, Reviews, Projects, and Audits, you'll learn ...

• The elements required for a well-written recommendation
• When to construct multi-step recommendations
• How to spot feel-good recommendations, also known as band-aides
• Regulatory rules around managing recommendations at an OSHA or EPA regulated site

Overview

To meet the Ohio Board's intent that online courses be "paced" by the provider, a timer will be used to record your study time. You will be unable to access the quiz until the required study time of 100 minutes has been met.

Credit: 2 PDH

Length: 26 pages

Recommendations are an essential part of the engineering profession. Formal training in creating, writing, and managing recommendations is often reserved for a small group of professionals in teams that perform Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA), Auditing, Incident Investigations, Government Regulation, and Private Consulting organizations that may perform these same functions.

This training will provide you as a Professional Engineer at the same level of training and knowledge as the experts. Writing a good recommendation sets an individual, team, or department up for success. A poorly-written recommendation causes confusion, creates a problem for others that must be managed, and can make a very competent Engineer appear to be inept, derelict, and incompetent.

The benefit of knowing what the experts know allows you a deeper understanding of how and why a recommendation was crafted in the manner that the original creator chose. This also allows you to thoroughly review another person’s work to ensure they are writing thorough and prescriptive recommendations.

Think of a recommendation as a “Gold Nugget.” This is the culmination and result of a lot of hard work that went before to obtain it. Treat a recommendation with this level of importance, and you will be a recommendation prospecting expert.

At the conclusion of this course, you will know the elements required for a well-written recommendation. You will be able to spot feel-good recommendations, also known as band-aides. You will further be able to recognize missing elements, when to construct multi-step recommendations, and coach others to be proficient in writing their own recommendations. Lastly, we will also cover regulatory rules around managing recommendations at an OSHA or EPA regulated site.

If you still don’t feel like this training is for you, then think about this. Have you been given a task through a recommendation management system that: cannot be closed, does not address the issue, is unrealistic in its expectations, or has no foundation? What if the power shifted to you in knowing how to discuss these issues with the source person that did write the recommendation or is planning on writing a recommendation? Instead of mining someone else’s claim, you could be mining your own success and help others along the way.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• Understand the recommendation life cycle
• Understand the basic elements required to write a good recommendation
• Rules when assigning a recommendation to others
• How to write multi-step recommendations
• What a good and a bad recommendation looks like
• Management overview for writing recommendations
• Recommendation source generators

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.