Managing teams

Many companies use worker—management teams, suggestion boxes, consultant surveys, suppHer training sessions, and other methods to reduce risk of injuries (see Hazard analysis and risk assessment). The principal regulatory burden falls on wastes and discharges which leave the plant (3,53,54). 

One person in a unit retrieved a two-year-old shutdown procedure from his locker and tried to use it. The old procedure was significantly different from the updated procedure. If the old procedure were followed exactly, there would be more risk. If the two procedures were intermingled, there would be high temperature and catastrophic corrosion. The unit management team tore up the bootleg procedure and added the updated shutdown procedure to the controlled document system used for ISO 9002 (ISO 9000, 1994). In this document system, only the current procedure is available. Alternate systems may use an expiration date or require periodic reconfirmation. 

After the safety plan has been eompleted and approved by the management team, the most ehallenging part of the job needs to be addressed. It is, very simply, the exeeution proeess. Now that the plan is written we should make sure that all site work is performed in a safe manner. Worksite eontrols established in the plan should eome into play immediately when aetivities begin. It is essential that everyone at the worksite is aware of the eontents of the safety plan. To make sure that everyone is familiar with the safety plan eontents, everyone should be oriented before any work is performed. 

If you selected TQM techniques to address this gap, you would first assemble a TQM project team. (See Section 6.2 for more discussion of forming and managing teams.) Such a team would include representatives of the functional group that "owns" the process (that is, the people responsible for its operation), as well as of other groups who are the process s customers and suppliers, for example ... 

Effective shutdown management depends on absolute adherence to prescribed standards that define what type of work will be done during scheduled shutdowns. These decisions can not be made by the maintenance planner alone. To aid in the selection, planning and implementation of outage tasks, a management team is a fundamental requirement. This team should be composed of ... 

The management team will participate in the following activities ... 

Question past shutdown practices Each of the tasks or projects requested for the outage should be evaluated to determine whether or not it should be included in the outage. The management team should include the following questions in this evaluation ... 

Develop the shutdown policies The outage management team should also establish clear, concise guidelines that will be used to plan and manage the shutdown. These criteria should include ... 

Develop timetable for shutdown The management team should establish a macro-level schedule for the outage. Without complete planning, a definitive timeline can not be established, but the team should establish specific milestones that must be met. 

Request all work requests The outcome of the initial outage management team meeting will generate a complete list of all approved maintenance tasks that are to be included in the outage plan. To complete the process, the planner should request any other tasks that may be included. This request should ... 

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Recommendation sponsors, line managers, team leaders and HR/training might be able to suggest potential mentees. 

As R D spending increases to a record share of revenue, many R D management teams have started to appraise their own performance in decision making. None of the following simple recipes seems like the easy answers that they appeared to be to many companies (and consultancies) over the past 15 years ... 

Liroff offers a benchmarking tool to assess progress in corporate management of product detoxification. The tool can be used internally by senior corporate management teams or externally by investors and investment analysts to screen investments, assess best in class ... 

The management team should examine all relevant information that is available to them. The exact list will vary between Standards and will usually be agreed between the laboratory and the accreditation/certifi-cation body. You will probably be able to think of a number of things to include. Table 9.4 shows a list that would form the basis of an agenda for such a meeting. 

Under the present EPA administration, there is every indication that TSCA implementation will speed up. The recently available draft of TSCA "Priorities for OTS Operation" prepared by Don Clay and his management team, suggests the Agency will direct their efforts toward two broad areas ... 

Many issues in one management area are bound to affect performance in other areas. For example, an inherent safety review may propose a change in the process chemistry that will allow a definite reduction in chemical reactivity hazards, perhaps by eliminating a reactive intermediate. Such changes will have to fit with product quality requirements, and the customer may need to be included in the process of changing to the inherently safer alternative. Effective communication among all parts of the management team will avoid many problems and help identify what works best. 

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A sponsor of a medical product entering the development phase must have a clinical development plan, which is created by experienced executives and consultants having expertise and experience in the disease state for which the product is intended. Once the plan is created, with appropriate input from regulators, the plan drives a clinical development budget, with consideration of the desired timeframe for projected producf approval. After the plan is created, the management team determines the "make vs. buy" strategy, which determines the elements of fhe plan that will be outsourced. 

UPS s employment turnover is low, less than 6% a year. The tenure of its average driver is sixteen years. Its driver turnover is less than 2% a year. The average tenure of its district managers is fourteen years. Nearly 60% of its work force is unionized. UPS s 85,000 drivers hold an esteemed position in the company. Drivers who are unionized can earn up to 70,000 a year and senior drivers get nine weeks paid annual leave and 100% of their health insurance premiums paid. The UPS work force is also diverse. Over one-third are members of minority groups and over 25% of the company s US managers are members of minority groups. Women represent 27% of its US management team and 21% of its overall work force. 

One member of the twelve-member Senior Management Team, Kurt Kuehn - Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing - stated that, Most senior managers like me began at UPS when part-timers in college as package sorters or assistants. We loved it and we stayed. ... 

A qualified member of the management team should be responsible for managing the fire protection program and assuring that an adequate budget is provided for fire protection maintenance. The assignment of this responsibility may be dictated by the size of the facility and the staffing levels, for example ... 

Large facilities may have a Fire Protection Department led by a member of the management team. Facilities with Fire Protection Departments could manage the inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire protection systems in different ways ... 

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