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The Taiichi Ohno 7 wastes of production are a simple and elegant way to focus improvement actions in production process settings. The 7 wastes are taught to teams who use them as a way to observe, assess, and improve [...]
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Safety Thursday
Work Injury Free
Keeping ourselves and each other safe on construction worksites takes our everyday attention. 1,300 people are reported injured everyday on construction jobsites in the US. It’s not only the gross safety violations that lead to injury and death.
Plumber dies in 3 foot deep trench.
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Safety Thursday
Work Injury Free
We can all now know what jobsites have the worst safety records thanks to the New York Times. Two years ago, the NYT filed a freedom of information request to get the 13,000 worst sites from OSHA. Well, OSHA resisted. A judge just ruled that OSHA [...]
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Safety Thursday
Work Injury Free
So, it’s not Thursday. This story couldn’t wait. Please take a few minutes to click through and read the next link on the Toledo crane collapse that killed four people.
Now that OSHA has completed their report on the Toledo crane accident and fined Frucon $280,000, the story behind [...]
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Safety Thursday
Work Injury Free
What is the OSHA law? What is every employee’s rights? OSHA has a poster that describes that. I’ve reprinted it here. Essentially every person working in the private sector is covered by OSHA or a state-run equivalent.
The following is a text extract of the OSHA [...]
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Silence is the principal source of dysfunction in organizations.
Clarke Ching sent along the latest VitalSmarts whitepaper Silence Kills, by Joseph Grenny. The paper is one in a series on Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Patterson, et al. I’ve authored a paper with Greg Howell on wastes in organizations [...]
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Construction safety improvements depends on two things: acknowledging the nature of people and not starting work that isn’t in a condition to be finished.
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These ten ideas will dramatically improve your projects. Are these ten rules the top ten? You decide. But don't take too long. Share these rules with your team. Your team members are sure to help you carry them out!
I did an interview with Bas de Baar via Skype video. We discussed how my company is using collaborative tools in support of our clients' projects. Enjoy!
Did you catch the Foreword to In Pursuit of Elegance
The Lean Project Coaches hit the 50 posts mark on Friday. Quite a milestone for just 6 weeks blogging at Coaches Corner. They are writing on all aspects of lean projects. Tap into that for your projects.
Chris Slivon shares a bit of her journey in being a lean coach in the post
Knowing and Not Knowing where she and others write for Lean Project Consulting's Coaches Corner.
Daily improvement to make our jobs safer, easier and more interesting is a corner-stone for Toyota. My colleague Rebecca Bettler describes how Quick 'n'Easy Kaizen is even more powerful when it's team sport. Read A Hidden Beauty...
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Learn about the TWI approach from the only Senior Master Trainer in the US. Patrick Graupp will introduce you to this landmark program: Webinar.
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Adopt this mnemonic for your project environment. Thanks Matt for writing about it.
Raven is consolidating project management hash tags for use on Twitter. Thank you Raven!
Read the latest story of how green meets lean, or should I say kaizen? It's a Wall St Journal article that you don't want to miss.
It irks me when people play games with their writing. It wastes the readers' time, turns them off to what one has to say, and creates idealogical warfares. Write clearly...for the readers. Sorry for this outburst. Let's speak (and write) so we can be understood. Our projects will benefit from that.
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OSHA Betrays Dead Man’s Family
by Hal on December 21, 2003
in Safety, commentary
After OSHA concluded that Linda Moeves’, owner of Moeves Plumbing, willful inherent disregard of safe work practices led to the death of 22 year-old Patrick E. Walters when he was buried alive in the cave-in of a trench, OSHA then negotiated away the willful designation, reduced the fine, and set-back safe work practices in the [...]
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