Take 5 for Safety

1
Take 5 for Safety

• Audits of E and OSH Management Systems

2
External Audit (BNL Consultants) for EMS
Management System

• Thursday
• Will examine 5 EMS (ISO 14001) areas
• 4.4.3 Communication
• 4.4.5 Control of documents
• 4.5.4 Control of records
• 4.4.6 Operational control
• 4.4.7 Emergency response
• Possible finding to date no formal checklist of
  employee responsibilities when transfer to inter
  or intra-department

3
Internal Audit (Dick Savage and Joe Montalto) for
EMS and OSH Management Systems

• All this week
• Aimed at passing re-registration in May
• All Sections of ISO 14001 standard are audited
• All Sections of OHSAS 18001 are audited
• Possible findings so far
• Many OPM procedures are outside 3-year review
  cycle
• Group generated OPM procedures may not be
  consistent

4
A New Management System?

• Two rules
• No one has right of way
• If in doubt, then yield

5
Swarm Intelligence Management System

• Work together is self-organized and unsupervised
• Collectively find efficient solutions to
  difficult problems
• Can adapt automatically to changing environments
• Hewlett-Packard developed the most efficient way
  to route phone traffic over a network using swarm
  model
• Southwest Airlines used a similar model to route
  cargo
• Northwestern University devised a system for
  painting trucks
• In the future, the modelers speculate, a company
  might structure its entire business using swarm
  intelligence
• Déjà vu all over again