Lean Safety Gemba Walks: A Methodology for Workforce Engagement and Culture Change

ISBN-13: 9781138438149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Robert B. Hafey

Opis

A Lean Safety Gemba Walk is a walk through the work area (Gemba) that focuses on the continuous improvement of safety

Recenzje

 Employee safety is the ultimate responsibility of any leader. Lean provides the ultimate set of guiding principles for any leader. Hafey, in his second book on the combined topic, shows us how leaders can use safety to deploy Lean principles on the Gemba to supercharge the performance of any organization.
—Dan McDonnell, VP Integrated Supply Chain, Ingersoll Rand

The idea of recognizing safety risks as opportunities for Lean improvement is unique. By making a work activity safer we also make the work more productive. I think most Lean practitioners do the reverse - they look for waste in the production cycle, fix that, and then trust that the process improvement also makes the work safer. But having a worker-centric point of view makes the whole Lean improvement idea more personal and grounded in ethics, which makes sense to me.
—Mike, Mikelis Abuls, Executive Vice President & COO, CG Schmidt, Inc.

After decades of grappling with variability in Lean implementation results, along comes Lean Safety Gemba Walks and ties all the loose ends together into a coherent, practical and very powerful approach to the engagement of the hearts and minds of those employees who traditionally suffer the most injuries, the very same people who we want to ‘transform’ into efficient assets. Enough with management pushing transformation, bring on the employees pulling it. The question is whether management can keep up.
—Wayne Burton, Manufacturing Manager, Bricks East Coast, Boral Clay & Concrete

Spis treści

The Common Objective—Impact the Culture by Building Trust. Compliance-Based Safety—Not Good Enough. Behavior-Based Safety versus Lean Safety. Living Injury-Free Every Day versus Living Painkiller-Free Every Day. A Safety Walk versus a Safety Gemba Walk. Case Studies.

O autorze

Robert B. Hafey