Tag: Mistake-Proofing

Bad Systems in the News: Not the Worst "Oops" Possible with...

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The Lean Thinker ยป What Nukes?I had been mulling over trying to do a post on this story since the original story broke...

How (One) CEO Works, or "How I Selfishly Endanger Others"

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In the October 29, 2007 issue of FORTUNE, there is their weekly "How I Work" segment that profiles and/or glorifies an executive. This...

Kids Learning About Lean

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SaukValley.com - Serving Dixon, Sterling & Rock Falls:Here's a news story about career day at a High School and someone talking about Lean (I...

Are Errors Inevitable??

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Huge Price Paid for Stupid, Careless Medical Error | TortdeformLots of discussion of the sad case of the mixed up laboratory specimens and Darrie...

Hospital Laboratory Mixups Will Happen Again, Unless…

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'I don't want this to happen to anyone else' This will happen again, unless the process is fixed. Lean can help. Please read on... I heard...

Relying on Memory Leads to Errors

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Patient Safety Blog - Telling Our StoriesHere is an unfortunate story about a surgeon operating on the wrong side of an 86 year-old man,...

An Error Proofing Challenge

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How would you error proof this material handling / logistics situation? I have a few ideas, but thought this would make for interesting discussion....

Gmail Error Proofing for Attachments

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I don't know if this is a new Gmail feature, or if I just discovered it, but there's some nice error proofing built into...

Prevention and Odds, Protecting Children with Lean Thinking

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Thursday: Newer pools minimize risk of drain accidents, officials sayYou might have seen this heartbreaking story on the news, the 6 year-old girl who...

Error Proofing Cell Phone Calls

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Cubicle Culture - WSJ.com:As the WSJ article mentions, my wife's purse sometimes calls me... her Blackberry sometimes calls me if she didn't put the...

Error Proofing Email Attachments

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Dan Evans' VBA Scripts - Outlook Attachment Checker etcLifeHacker PostHave you ever composed an email, meaning to attach a file, even saying something like...

A Defect in My Morning Coffee Routine

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I could have also titled this post "I screwed up!" or "Who Screwed Up? Me!" but we try not to point the finger...