{"id":304,"date":"2011-05-10T19:44:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T00:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=304"},"modified":"2011-05-10T19:44:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T00:44:57","slug":"the-five-stages-of-psm-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"The Five Stages of PSM Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many times have you as a PSM manager had to present to operators or management some new understanding of the requirements of PSM only to face gnashing of teeth and rending of garments? Individuals don’t like to change. Organizations REALLY don’t like to change. There is always some resistance. It\u00a0occurred\u00a0to me during a lecture by Randy Williams today that there is some similarity between the well-known stages of grief<\/a> and what people go through when you introduce a new policy.<\/p>\n

Presented for my friends at the Garden City Ammonia Program, a humorous take on the stages of policy acceptance we deal with from our coworkers:<\/p>\n

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  1. Denial<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cThere is no way I am doing that.\u00a0We’ve\u00a0been doing it this way for 25 years. They can\u2019t be serious. You have to be misunderstanding the rules\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. Anger<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cYou\u2019re an idiot. Why are you putting us through this \u2013 this will never work. I\u2019ll tell those OSHA guys what for!\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Bargaining<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cFine, I\u2019ll just pencil whip it and ignore the policy as soon as you turn your back. My buddy at another place says they just ignore this so we should too. It\u2019s not like we\u2019ll ever get caught anyway.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. Depression<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cThey\u2019re serious! We\u2019re actually going to have to follow this new policy. This is insane! We\u2019ll never have time to get our work done now.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Acceptance<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cYou know. This\u00a0isn’t\u00a0as bad as I thought. On balance, it might actually be a little bit better than the old way.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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