Lean approach safety

This visit confirmed the importance of building a disciplined workforce. So, use 5S with a focus on safety improvement to build safety discipline. Look at 5S wearing your safety glasses and you will see this lean approach in a new light. It is a great foundation for world-class safety and world-class lean, or lean safety. 

In the last chapter, one of the lean tools recommended for the building of world-class safety was teams. A formal team-based structure that distributes responsibility for safety process ownership is a great approach. Safety team membership requirements can be based on desire or interest rather than title. It can be cross functional because the team can and should be staffed from all areas and all levels of the organization. Let s start by identifying some of the key positions that would have to be filled on any safety team. 

Quick Guide Lean Approach to Internal Safety Promotion... 

Lean Approach to Safety Program Activity Management... 

Companies on the journey to world-class safety use the lean approach of benchmarking other s practices to determine the best in class safety rules. Their concern is not how the employees may feel about the added safety rules, but rather a deep concern for the safety of their employees. As a result, they do not wait for mandated changes or changes driven by an accident investigation. Their safety rules changes are guided by a researched... 

Quick Guide Lean Focused Approach to Safety Management... 

While worker safety is often touted as a company s first priority, more often than not. safety activity is driven by compliance to legislation rather than any safety improvement initiative. Lean takes a proactive approach — it is not contingent on legislation. A serious Lean effort will tear apart an old inefficient entitlement-riddled culture and build it into something effective. 

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