The First External Audit

In the interim there had been a management change at NOSA, and I left the plant but kept in touch with their progress. NOSA had not contacted them or followed up on my initial system implementation intervention and training since my departure. I was subsequently invited back to conduct the first external audit of the plant during the December vacation in a private capacity, and my wife, also an accredited five-star safety auditor, was invited along, too. 

The first audit of the plant went well and acted as a follow-up to the initial training in the system. The physical conditions encountered were surprisingly good, and vast improvements had been made. When I asked the locomotive shop manager what he had done to make the shop look so good, he replied, I did what you reconunended in the beginning, I cleaned the windows  

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