Ongoing Improvement

If safety and health is integrated into every part of the organization then it becomes part of the continnons improvement process. This means that resources and time is set aside to ensnre that the organization can identify the weaknesses and develop strategy to resolve and strengthen safety performance. (Ardern, 2012, p. 2) 

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Goldratt EM, Cox J. The goal a process of ongoing improvement, 3rd edition. North River Press. 2004. 

Because of ongoing improvements in analytical technology, marine chemists can now detect and quantify a bewildering number of organic compounds. Nevertheless, many substances remain uncharacterized. Of the compounds that have been identified, most are present in low concentrations, usually less than 1 ppm. The analytical and experimental strategies that marine biogeochemists use to detect, quantify, and study marine organic matter are described in this section. 

Xerox first introduced benchmarking in 1979. Initially, it was used to compare the unit manufacturing costs and the features available in their copying machines with those from competitor companies. The process was expanded into a philosophy for ongoing improvement... 

Ongoing improvement of processes and systems, driven by management and technical staff... 

Early Reviews in Mineralogy dealt with specific groups of minerals, one (or two) volumes at a time. In contrast, this volume deals explicitly with the topic of crystal size in many different systems. Until recently, the special and complicated nature of the very smallest particles rendered them nearly impossible to study by conventional methods. Even today, the challenges associated with evaluating the size-dependence of a mineral s bulk and surface structures, properties, and reactivity are significant. However, ongoing improvements in sophisticated characterization, theory, and data analysis make particles previously described (often inaccurately) as amorphous (or even mo re mysteriously as k-ray amorphous ) amenable to quantitativ e evaluation. Thermochemical, crystal chemical, and computational chemical approaches must be combined to understand particles with diameters of 1 to 100 nanometers. Determination of the variation of structure, properties, and reaction kinetics with crystal size requires careful synthesis of... 

In its simplest form, the MUE process is an ongoing improvement cycle with no set beginning or end. For each identified high-priority issue, there are four major action... 

The causes are influenced by the specific attributes of a pipeline system. Good discussions of these be found in the technical literature. As with the causes, the system attributes can also be defined af differenf levels of resolution and different terms are sometimes used by different experts. Fundamentally, however, the major relationships between attributes and causes are commonly understood. Ongoing research continues to refine current knowledge about the relationships and provides a basis for ongoing improvements in pipeline safety practices, whether technical or procedural. 

There are several ways of introducing alkaline phosphatase labeled reagents, essentially paralleling those methods used with horseradish peroxidase. Ongoing improvements in polymer-based methods (discussed in the following section) are so dramatic that it appears likely that these methods will supersede PAP and streptavidin biotin methods as the primary method as well as for double stains. However, a brief description of special alkaline phosphatase applications follows. 

The need for an ever-increasing resolution in photolithography has resulted in an ongoing improvement of laser systems which have replaced UV lamp systems for high-resolution applications. The decrease of the irradiation... 

GMP is not simply the Orange Guide and the interpretation of it, but ongoing improvements in pharmaceutical quality. This means more control over the total packaging function and a greater use of computerised data, records and information. 

List reeently completed and ongoing improvement projects. This includes facilities, equipment, and systems. Trace back at least three years and forward over the company s planning horizon. 

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