Tag: Safety

Start Every Hospital Meeting w/ 5 Minutes on Employee and Patient...

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Recently, I posted a video of a "daily huddle" meeting at Everett Clinic (not exactly the type of huddle pictured at left). Yesterday, in...

Labor Day – Our Obligation for Worker Safety

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Today is a federal holiday in the United States, Labor Day. I know that's obvious to the 70% of you reading from the U.S.,...

Interview with Paul O’Neill; The Right Goals in Healthcare

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Many of you may know of Paul O'Neill for the dramatic employee safety improvements at aluminum maker Alcoa and you may know of him...

Should Have Posted a “Caution: Don’t Knock Our House Down” Sign?

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I saw this on the national cable news two nights ago, the horrifying story of a Denton TX woman whose house was basically destroyed...

A Lean Guy Reads the WSJ, Nov 30 Edition

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Some days, it seems the WSJ is a treasure trove of tangentially Lean-related articles. Similar to "blog carnivals," this is sort of a WSJ...

UPS: Disrespect for People?

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by Dan Markovitz I took this picture of a UPS truck recently in NYC. (The orange signs say "SAFETY.") At first I thought, "Great! UPS...

Customer Intimacy = Safety from Salmonella?

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I'm not one, generally, to worry about consumer privacy with stores and them tracking my purchases. I like that amazon.com keeps a record of...

Following up on the Peanut Corporation… Snap, Crackle, Salmonella?

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Following up on these two earlier posts (here and here)... I'll quit calling them the "Idiot Corporation of America" since the Peanut Corporation of...

Idiot Inspector for Idiot Corporation?

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TheDay.com - Food safety problems slip by auditorsYou might remember my rants about the Idiot Corp... I mean Peanut Corporation of America. Just saw...

Idiot Corporation of America?

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Ga. peanut plant has history of problems - Food safety - nbc.com NY Times article There was a lot of focus in the news yesterday about...

Moving Backward on Airline Safety?

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Three airlines drop self-reporting safety program - USATODAY.comDropping this program has got to be one of those "process indicators" of airline safety. I can't...

Birthday Ramblings on Errors and Work Design

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Kevin Meyer, over at Evolving Excellence, recently wrote a good piece on "endorsing" a U.S. presidential candidate. Today, I'm technically Constitution-eligible to be...
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