Sustain the process by adapting and institutionalizing the steps of the ARM program, integrating these steps within the company’s systems and day-to-day functioning.
Why do you need to continue to use this approach and maintain the changes you’ve implemented?
The ARM program is based on a continuous improvement cycle. Other companies have adapted the ARM program steps to fit their existing organizational culture, implementing an ongoing strategic approach to improving working conditions by collecting worker feedback, prioritizing action items, and developing solutions.
To support your workers’ safety, health, and well-being, it’s critical to maintain the positive changes your company has made and ingrain the ARM process in your approach to improving working conditions.
During Step 4, participants learn how to develop sustainable solutions to challenges identified, evaluate changes made, and continue to make improvements to working conditions, by implementing formal policies and programs, as well as informal practices.
After developing sustainable solutions to some priority issues identified through the ARM program, the next step is to focus on more complex issues, using this process to identify opportunities for improving working conditions by developing policies, programs, and practices that address areas for improvement.