Work Place Organisation – 5S
One of the most poorly understood and ineffectively used tools in the Lean arsenal is 5S. It is a common misbelief that 5S is just housekeeping. 5S is a tool comprising 5 steps where the descriptor for each step starts with a letter S. Originally, they were Japanese words which have subsequently been translated into […]
Why problems occur – An introduction to Root Cause Analysis.
In last month’s article I put forward that “Respect for People,” one of the key pillars in any Lean organisation, was more than being polite and courteous. It was in fact involving your team in the business by giving them an opportunity or even actively encouraging them to solve their problems. In this newsletter, I […]
R.E.S.P.E.C.T…find out what it means…
RESPECT FOR PEOPLE Improve your business (Part 4) Over the past few months we have provided a series of newsletters introducing the business philosophy called Lean Thinking. We have discussed “Value” as a concept from a customer or consumer perspective and concluded the most simplistic way to create Value for our organisations was to eliminate […]
Improve Your Business (Part 3) – Value of Waste
Waste Elimination – Understanding what TIM WOODS is Costing YOU In our last Newsletter, we introduced the concept of waste and that this exists in every business. If you are to be competitive by delivering a product or service which the consumer or customers are prepared to pay for while ensuring the organisation makes money, […]
Up to 80% of everything we do to make a product or provide a service doesn’t add any value to the customer!
Improve Your Business with Lean Thinking – Waste In last month’s newsletter we introduced the concept of Lean Thinking as a way of improving your business and stated over coming months we would be developing and sharing some of the concepts and tools used in this philosophy. Typically an organisation calculates the price of a […]
The West Gate Bridge Disaster
The West Gate Bridge Disaster On the 15th of October 1970 at 11.50 a.m. a 367-ft. span of the West Gate Bridge collapsed without warning killing 35 men.
Increase to National Minimum Wage
Annual Wage Review decision by Fair Work Commission has resulted in a 3.3% increase.
Improve Your Business with Lean Thinking
Article by Grant Winter In today’s business environment competitiveness is constantly increasing, whether it’s the rapidly changing legislative landscape or the greater number of competitors, many of which could be international in nature having much lower cost structures and inputs. Add to this, advances in technology plus the changes in our demographics leads to a […]
The True Cost of Work Injuries
The True Cost of Work-Related Injury, Illness and Disease in Australia Work-related injuries, illnesses and deaths impose real and significant costs on employers, workers and the community. These include both direct costs and indirect costs. Direct costs include items such as workers’ compensation premiums paid by employers or payments to injured or incapacitated workers.
Dismissal upheld – Confidential client list
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed an employee’s application for unfair dismissal, finding that the employer’s decision to terminate the employee for serious misconduct was reasonable as the employee’s action can be construed as constituting a breach of the confidentiality obligations in her employment contract. An employee who held the position of Account Executive was […]