Hello,

These are tough times. And indications are, they are not nearly over. In spite of that, workplace safety still isn’t negotiable; it is not something we can suspend when cash flow and time constraints force managing priorities. The costs of getting it wrong are still too steep, and will remain that way.

What to do?

Safety FMEAs are not new, but I was not able to find anything on the web that did a good job of explaining them. This paper discusses some Lean, Value Management and human performance management methods that can be applied to safety program management to understand, confront, and solve problems that can bring big costs. The focus is on work smarter, not harder principles to share responsibility, and reduce safety errors and costs where they occur: in the process.

Slaying Workplace Safety Costs is Part 5 of the Stealth Quality Series. A Safety FMEA template is also attached.

EXCELLENT work, Jennifer! Your articles rival the best work available in any quality journal. Thank you so much for sharing with us!

Very nice! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you for the kind remarks - papers like this involve quite of bit of work, so your support is important to me! :thanks:

I have a fairly decent little library of business books, and the thing that has consistently driven me nuts about them is their focus on theory with a superficial brush of the Getting it Done subject. I guess they still want people to hire their consultant services to get that last part.

I would be interested to learn if, and how well these tools of mine are performing on the actual job.

well, am not sure about using them at work (sigh, and don't get me started :mad:) but i do use them as a teaching aid :)

looking forward to your part 6