Team leaders

A senior-level manager should be responsible for safety in the facility. The safety team is his vehicle to drive world-class safety. The primary responsibility of this safety team member is that of a facilitator. Remember that facilitators, like midwives, assist, but do not deliver the results. Therefore, mentoring the team leader and clearing roadblocks for the team, rather than direct involvement in task completion, are appropriate activities. 

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Once management has made a commitment to the program and goals have been set, a program task force is established. The selection of a team leader will be dependent upon many factors including their ability to effec tively interface with both the assessment team and management staff. 

The task force must be capable of identifying pollution reduc tion alternatives as well as be cognizant of inherent obstacles to the process. Barriers frequently arise from the anxiety associated with the belief that the program will negatively affect produc t quality or result in production losses. According to an EPA survey, 30 percent of indus-tiy comments responded that they were concerned that product qualify would decline if waste minimization techniques were implemented (Ref. 6). As such, the assessment team, and the team leader in particular, must be ready to react to these and other concerns (Ref. 2fy... 

Some people beheve that it may be an advantage for the team leader not to nave an intimate knowledge of the plant or process being studied in order to maintain neutrality. Ideally, the team leader should... 

Review Documentation The project review team leader has the ultimate responsibility for documenting the results of the project review. This responsibility may be delegated to a team scribe or secretary to record trie review minutes and issue a summary report with listed action items. The action items could address exceptions to company or industiy standards and government regulations, review team recommendations based on experience and knowledge, and further issues for study that could not be resolved during the review session. 

Progress on the action items should be documented in periodic progress reports to the review team leader or others assigned that functional responsibility. If no one is assigned the responsibihty of tracking this progress, completion of the action list wih probably be relegated to a lower priority and not be done. 

When the analysis is complete, the PHA team leader will issue a report with action items. Items required to be done before start-up... 

All types of PHAs benefit from a multidisciplinary approach. This ensures appropriate technical expertise is available to evaluate each deviation discussed during the sessions. While it is not essential that all team members have had formal training in the PHA method selected, it is important that the team leader has experience. The participation techniques can be learned when a new participant is included as a part of a team in which some members have already gained PHA experience. 

Two members selected from the team act in supportive roles during the PHA. These roles are the leader and the scribe. A team leader is always needed for a PHA and should double as the scribe only for extremely simple hazard evaluations. For more complex analyses or the HAZOP study method, a separate person should always be assigned to scribe. 

Independent team leader an expert in the HAZOP technique whose job is to ensure that the team follows the procedure. 

For smaller projects, the field team leader and project manager will likely be the same person. 

Security issues involving access controls are typically line management responsibilities. However, it is not unheard of to have the SSHO in charge of site access or other security-related matters. However, if the field team leader or site supervisors are in charge of access issues or other security matters, they should always strive for SSHO participation. The nature of a project may warrant assigning a member of the site security staff to the project team. Key duties of the security officer may include the following ... 

Any designated, trained (8-hour HAZWOPER supervisor course as a minimum), and experienced individual responsible for the safety of an employee (such as team leaders or crew leaders) may perform the function of an experienced person to provide the supervised field experience required by HAZWOPER [1]. Although having the appropriate certificates of completion would satisfy regulatory requirements, you should also consider time of service and experience. A fresh college graduate with training certificates and minimal field experience may be less desirable to perform supervised field experience than the safety professional with years of substantial field experience. 

Simplifying assumptions used by the PrHA team and reviewers must be understood and recorded to indicate the completeness of the PrHA, and for use in future improvements of the analysis. The PrHA team and especially the team leader must thoroughly undcrsiantl ilic methodology that is selected... 

A team consists of two or more people that know the process technology, design, operating procedures, practices, alarms, emergency procedures, test and maintenance procedures, routine and non-routine tasks. They must consider authorization and procurement of parts and supplies, safety and health standards, codes, specifications and regulations. The team leader provides m.iriagcment and goals to the process the team and consultants construct and interpret the analyses. 

The PrHA team leader assembles a qualified team to perform a What-lf/Checklist analysis. If the process is large, the team is divided into subteams according to functions, physical areas, or tasks similarly to the discussion in Sections 3.3.1 and 3.3.2. 

For the checklist portion of the analysis, team leader obtains a checklist for the team... 

The HAZOP session is recorded on a personal (laptop or desktop) computer by the person assigned to be the recorder. A program for this purpose maybe HAZSEC available from Technica. 1 his record is not a verbatim transcript it is a recording of intermediate or final results as directed h> ihc team leader. 

HAZSEC generates two types of records. The first page is the log sheet with the time, date, rc% ision number, team leader, and team members. This page also contains a section that describes the part of the plant design under investigation, and a statement of the design intent, i.e., the expected equipment performance under normal and accident conditions. The pages that follow repeat this... 

HAZOP focuses on study nodes, process sections, and operating steps. The number of nodes depending on the team leader and study objectives. Conservative studies consider e er line and vessel. An experienced HAZOP leader may combine nodes. For example, the cooling looser . .ater chlorination system may be divided into a) chlorine supply to venturi, b) recirculation loop, and e) to .er water basin. Alternatively, two study nodes may be used a) recirculation loop and tower water basin, and b) chlorine supply to venturi. Or one study node for the entire process. 

All ISO/TS 16949 audit teams including surveillance shall consist of lATF-qualified auditors. The Team Leader has to ensure that the audit team comprises only lATF-qualified auditors - hence if the CB has only two qualified auditors, the audit days have to be extended. 

In some respects this requirement is ambiguous as there are no equivalent requirements for when the APQP approach is used. The APQP manual merely offers guidance. With the APQP approach the equivalent of the project manager is the project team leader and the equivalent of the project team is the product quality planning team. 

This agenda would require a full-day meeting. Also, It presumes a meeting of teammates from multiple locations who may not be well-acquainted with the team leader or each other. 

Facilitate interchange of ideas. The most effective team leaders are often facilitators, not dictators. An interdisciplinary team s greatest strength lies in its multiple perspectives and fresh ideas. Try to incorporate your own ideas into the group s discussion rather than imposing them. Keep in mind that healthy disagreement can enhance both the process and its end result. 

Establish and stick to deadlines. This applies equally to your own commitments and those you expect of team members. The team leader must take responsibility for seeing that deadlines are met and commitments honored team members who don t contribute drain the group s momentum. 

Root cause 1 Supervision was less than adequate. The team leader should have stayed with his colleague and checked the work as he had responsibility for the team... 

On the part of the contractor team, two root causes were identified, root cause 1 being insufficient training of the contractor team leader. He was uncertain of permit systems, specifically whether they should report in at the end of shift, and, if so, who should do it. The second root cause relates to the procedure used at the end of the shift for supervisors to sign back permits. Although according to procedure all workers should hand back permits to supervisors in person, in practice this did not occur. If no one is present, or they are busy, it had become common practice to either leave the permits on the supervisor s desk, or to sign them back in the morning. 

Different requirements may be filled by a single team member. One member of the team should be appointed as the team leader and the team should agree about the division of other responsibilities. The team leader should be given clear instructions on the scope of work for the team and the schedule within which they are working. This will most likely be achieved through the application of Quality Management analysis techniques. Staff can be involved in more than one team, but avoid having one person lead more... 

Al Bickman, Osprey River site manager, expects the work on the pilot study to start next month and be completed within 12 weeks. He has established a local team of managers, engineers, and operators to work with the integration team. Most of this team will be committed for up to half of their time. The team leader will be dedicated to the project. 

M W O Reilly, Dip Tech, URIC Decorative Paints Market Team Leader, ICIPaints Division... 

Needs and objectives might emerge in various ways first, the mentee might have worked them out as a result of reflecting upon current performance secondly, the mentee s line manager or team leader might have been substantially involved in... 

Interviews and/or questionnaires that can be administered to your target group as well as to their team leader/ manager. 

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