Tag: Safety
Customer Intimacy = Safety from Salmonella?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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
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...
This is what $1 billion (and $25 million a year) gets...
by Dan MarkovitzThe New York subway system has invested nearly $1 billion investment since the early 1990s -- and $25 million per year in...
Misuse of the "Customer" Concept
FAA too cozy with airlines, whistle-blowers say | ajc.comAs a frequent flyer, it's really troubling anytime you read about systemic problems in the aviation...
The Danger of Overproduction?
PEPCON disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIn some Saturday afternoon background TV watching, my ears perked up when I heard about this story on...
How (One) CEO Works, or "How I Selfishly Endanger Others"
In the October 29, 2007 issue of FORTUNE, there is their weekly "How I Work" segment that profiles and/or glorifies an executive. This...
The Bloodbath to Come
by Mike Lopez All these lead paint toy scandals are only the beginning. On July 12, 2007, Businessweek ran a story, "Made in China:...
No, Not Spongebob!!
LEAD SINKS SPONGEBOB CHINA GOODSSung to the TV theme... parody words by Mark Graban"Who's covered in lead and lives under the sea?Spongebob! Squarepants!Whose...
