Personnel turnover

Late receipt of raw materials or packaging from the client Personnel turnover can create unforeseen delays... 

Staff have time to develop new shills and assume greater responsibility by delegating boring work to the laboratory robot. These new career opportunities can reduce personnel turnover and retraining costs. 

Ensure that training systems periodically refresh personnel s memory, address personnel turnover, and early retirements. 

It seems that self-made software, for a chromatograph or for anything else, whether developed from scratch or assembled, tends to be poorly documented. If the software is documented, the documentation is not maintained. Either situation, when coupled with personnel turnover, can and does lead to costly long-term software maintenance. 

Facility changes Utility changes Validated system changes Personnel turnover and loss... 

There is no denying the personnel component of product quality. Issues such as training, personnel turnover, staff s core capabilities and knowledge, job expectations, personnel motivation, and leadership all contribute to overall quality and product integrity. 

Laboratory glassware containing reaction mixtures of unknown nature (and sometimes of unknown origin) can pose difficult disposal problems. Such materials occur frequently in research laboratories, particularly in those that have a high rate of personnel turnover. Simple laboratory tests may provide enough information for safe disposal. The waste management system should provide a procedure designed to prevent the occurrence of such orphan wastes. 

Previous plant experience—this can be an ideal source of information. However, personnel turnover in manufacturing plants may diminish that source of expertise. 

I. The technical editor of an organic chemicals firm, in reviewing past difficulties, stressed the pirating of personnel among AEC contractors. He told of filling a chemist-editor s position by compromising for a biologist who had once prepared army parts manuals, only to have him snatched away by a competitor in less time than the 9 months it had taken to fill the position I He likewise deplored the personnel turnover in the library and related how the responsibility for it finally devolved upon the reports file super-... 

Developers of expert systems for the EPA must recognize important Agency considerations, such as the varying nature of the problems addressed, a staff with diverse experience, decentralization of tasks, computer resource constraints, geographical distance, and high personnel turnover. 

Finding 11. Personnel turnover varies across chemical agent stockpile incineration facility sites, but is generally low. However, this situation may not continue as facilities approach the end of disposal operations. Retention incentives have not yet been applied in an effective manner to help ensure continuing safe operations. 

Many people are familiar with the Bhopal disaster in December 1984, and as is usually the case, there were multiple problems and failures leading up to the catastrophic release of methyl isocyanate (MIC). For this case study, we will focus on the organizational issues related to personnel turnover to provide an example of how such changes can contribute to process safety incidents. 

The risks presented by personnel turnover can be significant. Many of these issues have already been mentioned in this chapter. Table 4.1 includes several issues that should be considered with these types of organizational changes. 

TABLE 4.1 Potential Risks Associated with Personnel Turnover... 

Because of the high personnel turnover and the absence of department leadership, the quality and experience levels of the buying staff were low. In addition, for most of the buyers, this was their first job out of college. The average buyer had less than two years of experience as a buyer — and almost all of that was at Merisel — which had few buying role models. 

Inadequately trained operation personnel Late arxi/or inadequate training Large personnel turnover... 

Even though he was successful as a supervisor, he still had the problem of dealing with respect from his employees. He was good at what he did, but he had a reputation of If you do not do your job, you will be fired . With this reputation, when he would move into another production line, the employee reaction was I do not want to work foryou and he constantly fought personnel turnover. 

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