As changing customer demands and shifting world markets continue to put a strain on businesses in all sectors, your business needs every advantage to stay competitive. Many people may think of lean processes as suitable only for the manufacturing floor, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Safety Performance in a Lean Environment: A Guide to Building Safety into a Process demonstrates how lean tools can eliminate waste in your safety program, making it an important piece not only in keeping your organization safe but also in keeping it globally competitive.
Written by safety pro Paul F. English, this book explores tools such as lean manufacturing, DMAIC processes, and Kepner-Trego problem solving and how to use them to increase efficiency and eliminate waste in safety programs. He goes on to discuss Value Based Management, a technique identified as a leading business model for any organization wanting to catch "The Toyota Way". These processes help you build, incorporate, and sustain a safety program and understand how to get and maintain a foothold for the safety program in times of change.
Here’s what you get:
- Real safety solutions for a lean environment
- Methods for setting up standard work for EHS professionals
- How-tos for JSA and Pre-Task Analysis to help develop standardized work
- Tips and tricks that everyone can use to jump start a stalled safety program
There is no book currently on the market that discusses lean manufacturing or Six Sigma processes and links them to the occupational safety or environmental science. Yet these are the areas where the need for lean processes is becoming acute. English demonstrates how to anticipate paradigm shifts in management models and how environmental health and safety fits into the model. He defines what adds value to the safety and manufacturing process as well as to the customer. These changes may include a change in daily, weekly or monthly metrics that can help or harm a safety program. Defining what adds value to the safety and manufacturing process and the customer helps you understand how to build safety into a process, creating a strong safety program.
Management Models
History of Modern Management Theory
Management Processes
Management Structures
Social Management
Entrepreneurs
Value Based Management, VBM
Planning & Decision Making
Foundations of Planning
Strategic and Tactical Planning
SWOT Analysis
Foundations of Decision-Making
House of LEAN
Waste Elimination
Visual Management
"S" System
Standardized Work
Cell/Workstation Design
Flow
Quality at the Source
Single Minute Exchange Dye, SMED
Flexibility
Kanban/Pull Systems
Total Productive Maintenance, TPM
Kaizen Process
Value Stream Mapping
Case Studies in LEAN Manufacturing for EHS Improvement
Success Stories
Lessons Learned
Six Sigma, DMAIC Process and Safety Management
DMAIC Process for EHS issues
Define
Measure
Analyze
Improve
Control
Six Sigma for Safety
Pro
Con
Managing Change, Stress, and Innovation
Foundations of Individual and Group Behavior
Work Teams
Motivating and Rewarding Employees
Leadership
Leadership and Trust
Leaders vs Managers
Communications and Interpersonal Skills
Foundations of Control
Paul F. English is the Director of Safety, Security, and Medical Services for E-ONE, Inc. in Ocala, Florida.
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