“In Case of Fire” article published in Shanghai Business Review
2011-03-01
Siveco China's General Manager Bruno Lhopiteau wrote an article on risk prevention for the February 2011 issue of Shanghai Business Review, the leading magazine for senior management of international companies in Shanghai. The article touches on the growing awareness of risk in the wake of recent disasters, experience from past mistakes and the use of IT to enforce good habits.
Some quotes from the article:
"Although the common sense concept of prevention may be understood in theory, it is almost never implemented in practice."
"Outsourcing technical services does not help; in the immature Chinese market, only cost is outsourced, not risk."
"IT systems can be added as a structuring tool to support methodologies and best practices, allowing companies to become less dependent on 'good' people in a market where a skills shortage and high turnover rate are common problems."
"The realization that risk prevention relies on the daily work of technical people is the key to successful risk prevention. As those technicians are Chinese, western solutions tend not to work and a localized approach must be adopted."
The entire article (in English) can be found here.
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