Lean thinking has been linked to most core business processes, including product development, manufacturing, purchasing, accounting, and the supply chain. Lean Safety: Transforming your Safety Culture with Lean Management provides the knowledge necessary to both assess and improve a current safety program by using lean tools and techniques.
Written by a leader in the industry with more than 30 years of experience, the text focuses on the culture, leaders, thinking, improvement methods, correct incident and accident investigation, and the proper metrics needed for a successful implementation and enduring initiative.
Lean Safety: Transforming your Safety Culture with Lean Management …
· Focuses solely on the strong connection between lean initiatives and safety programs
· Explains how a cross-functional team with rotating leadership can be an effective structure upon which to build an effective safety program
· Details time-relevant metrics that engage employees in positive proactive activities
· Illustrates the integration of the well-known powerful lean tools such as kaizen blitz, process mapping, benchmarking, and root cause analysis
About the author
Robert Hafey has worked in manufacturing operations and maintenance for 40 years, at both U.S. Steel Corporation and Flexco. For the last 18 years, he was directly involved in the definition and implementation of continual improvement. He has served on the national board, as a regional board president, regional board member and has been a volunteer member of three Association for Manufacturing Excellence annual conference teams. He firmly believes in the email signature tagline he created, “You can continuously cope or you can continuously improve – the choice is yours!”
About Productivity Press
Productivity Press is a premier source of information on organizational improvement, offering a broad selection of books and learning tools about lean methodologies, based on the Toyota Production System. For more information, visit ProductivityPress.com.