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Continuous Improvement Six Sigma Teams That Effectively Drive Safety Management Process Excellence
By Dr. Mike Williamsen
Session# 9
Tuesday February 23, 2010
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11:10 - 11:50
Since 2001, CoreMedia has applied the Safety Perception Survey and Continuous Improvement (CI) Teams to help organizations significantly improve their safety culture and reduce incidents. The practical “kaizen” approach has become a means for the internal ownership necessary to develop zero-incident performance. The following paper documents an example of the Safety Management Processes, activities and outcomes of a sustainable continuous improvement safety culture. Although this case study showcases “Inspections” as a single improvement category, the same tactics to improve inspections have been used by many CI Teams that focus on all aspects of improving safety performance. The case study organization implemented a Safety Perception Survey to determine its safety culture strengths and weaknesses. Once the results were in and communicated, the company formed three volunteer CI Teams, all of which received the same “basic training” regardless of their safety process improvement objective.
Presenter – Dr. Mike Williamsen
Dr. Williamsen is a nationally recognized workplace safety consultant
with more than 25 years of safety and business change management
experience. His background includes serving in Engineering, Operations,
and Safety Manager positions for companies such as Frito-Lay, Inc.
and General Dynamics. In 1985, Mike teamed with safety author Dr.
Dan Petersen for three years to develop and implement a nationwide
safety accountability and continuous improvement system that helped
companies reduce injuries at a rate of 80% within two years. Since that
time Mike has applied these and other high-impact safety approaches
with similar success to other Fortune 500 companies, such as General
Dynamics, Baxter Healthcare, Morton Salt, Rohm and Haas Co., and
Smurfit Stone Container Corporation. |
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