Workforce operational

For the 30-person craft workforce, operating at 40% craft utilization, a 10% gain in wrench time hours represents a 25% increase in craft labor capacity from baseline performance. With only a 10% increase in craft utilization for a 30-person craft workforce, more than a 5 1 return can be achieved to offset a maintenance planner position, and implementation of planning and scheduling. 

Respondents main focus seems to have been upon the major accidents and evidently opinions differed about the acceptability of these I suppose it s a lot but there again taking the people they got about I don t suppose it s all that many really (worker, interviewee 65). Directors and departmental safety managers considered that in absolute terms there were either too many or a lot of accidents on the railway. But this was qualified by two in this group who believed that the numbers were few relative to the size of the workforce, the twenty-four hour nature of the industry, and the environment within which the workforce operated. ... 

Task analysis involves a study of the workforce (operators) to ascertain what is required to achieve the system goals. This allows comparison between the task demands and the operators capabilities. 

As discussed earlier in this chapter, the main requirements to ensure an appropriate safety culture are similar to those which are advocated in quality management systems. These include active participation by the workforce in error and safety management initiatives, a blame-free culture which fosters the free flow of information, and an explicit policy which ensures that safety considerations will always be primary. In addition both operations and management staff need feedback which indicates that participation in error reduction programs has a real impact on the way in which the plant is operated and systems are designed. 

The worker knew that valve A had to be closed. However, it was believed by the workforce that despite the operating instructions, closing B had a similar effect to closing A and in fact produced less disruption to downstream production. Possible cause violation as a result of mistaken information and an informal company culture to concentrate on production rather than safety goals (wrong intention). 

From the perspective of the CPI, this result suggests that it would be valuable to carry out a survey of the perceptions of the workforce with regard to the risks associated with different aspects of plant operations (both field and... 

This phase of the program is designed to ensure that the information produced by the system is fed back to all levels of the workforce, including process operators, managers, supervisors, engineers, and senior policy makers. 

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) are step-by-step job instructions which can help workers perform their jobs safely and efficiently. When the end users are involved in their design, SOPs can provide a basis for arriving at a method of work agreed-to by different shifts. In this sense, SOPs can be used to develop training programs and specify measures of competence. Because of the importance of SOPs in the work situation, a systematic framework is needed to enable the design of reliable procedures which are acceptable by the workforce. 

Besides operational energy use, corporate decisions have an impact throughout society. One reason that per capita energy consumption in North America is much higher than in the rest of the world was the decision of corporate leaders to expand and relocate away from city centers and to major beltway loops in the suburbs. This necessitated more trucking and a workforce reliant on the private automobile instead of mass transit. In an era of tremendous job insecurity, even the most energy-conserving person... 

Man-made structures and architecture operate under similar constraints. Three factors come together to produce the final object. There is a design in the form of a blueprint, the workforce to manipulate the components, and the components themselves whose physical properties also play a role in determining the ultimate form. One cannot build a car engine from rubber or Wellington boots from steel. Classical Greek architecture... 

Industry experts expect this trend to continue single operating units being purchased by owners of multiple plants, leading to a consolidation in the US. nuclear industry with sustainable skilled nuclear workforces, and with the most efficient existing operations well positioned for deregulation. 

High labor costs In processes in which excessive handling is required, such as in batch operation, bulk quantities can often be handled at lower cost and with a smaller workforce. Revised layouts of facilities can reduce costs. Sometimes no direct reduction in the labor force results, but the intangible benefits of a lessened workload can allow the operator to assume greater responsibility. 

Sustainability overall objective for human beings formulated by the United Nations in the 1990s is to ensure sustainable development for future generations chemical companies have already started to translate this objective into their industry practice with respects to products developed and sold, energy and natural resource efficiency in their processes, climate protection, corporate social responsibility for the workforce as well as stakeholders in production and consuming areas sustainability as an objective also already inspired operations research and supply chain literature (see for example Zhou et al. 2000 Al-Sharrah et al. 2002)... 

All plants maintain records of absenteeism, if only for reasons of keeping track of pay. These records, however, can provide a valuable source of information about the health of the workplace. If you trace them back over a few months, you will soon establish whether the absenteeism is distributed fairly evenly throughout the whole workforce or whether most of it seems to be coming from one or more specific groups or work areas. When you find that there is more sickness absenteeism among employees in a certain operation or area, your suspicions should be aroused that some factor in that operation or area could be giving rise to the excess absenteeism. 

It is particularly helpful to have an hourly employee from the same or an adjacent plant on the team to build confidence with a wider workforce. There has been a tendency in the past to select staff engineers and ignore operators and technicians. Operators and technicians generally know what really happens better than anyone does, and their involvement on the team can produce facts that would otherwise not become known. 

Leadership expects cost-efficient reliable results from their manufacturing operations. Management requires a capable workforce, equipment, facilities, and materials to manufacture the product. Employees require robust processes that are easy to... 

CSR operationalization is not a simple task a global pharmaceutical company may employ over 50,000 people in as many as 100 countries. To move this workforce spread across operating units of the firm throughout many diverse geographic markets requires a multi-year commitment of the corporate board to implement it. It is partially for this research that the industry s efforts to act more responsibly are largely unknown outside the firm. Added to this problem of visibility is that individual companies have little identity per se - their products may be known but very little corporate visibility exists with patients and other stakeholders. 

A substantial workforce is or will be involved in the operation of JACADS, CAMDS, and the eight continental U.S. chemical disposal facilities. The Army has estimated that total employment, counting both operating contractor and Army oversight personnel at the... 

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