This document presents a strategic framework for PERC’s safety and training activities and resource allocation of until the end of 2012. The roadmap outlines key commitments in nine focus areas that will provide a path forward for the next four years.
Client Need
The Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) responded to shifting workforce and consumer demographics, new market realities, and increasing regulatory constraints by establishing a new strategic plan covering the years 2008 through 2012. The plan specifies goals, objectives, and metrics for the activity of its advisory committees and directs each committee to update its roadmap or other guidance methodologies.
The Safety & Training Advisory Committee (STAC) took the strategic plan’s new safety and training goal as a call to assess its own achievements over the past seven years, re-evaluate industry needs, and look for ways to expand its contribution.
Solution
Key stakeholders came together for a strategic roadmapping workshop that helped the Safety and Training Advisory Committee (STAC) develop a strategic framework to guide its activities and allocation of resources until the end of 2012. In the workshop, participants identified management training needs and potential solutions, challenges in consumer safety and potential areas for expanded consumer safety education, challenges and barriers in technology commercialization and potential areas for expanded contributions to technology commercialization, and potential STAC activity metrics.
Results
The strategic framework outlined in the roadmap will enable STAC to maintain a balance between meeting the growing needs for workforce safety training and answering the call to expand the scope of its contribution in accordance with PERC’s new strategic plan.