For the uninitiated, lean can seem like a bit of a mystery. During a breakout session at EHS Today’s Safety Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, author and consultant Robert Hafey tried to clear up ...

When building new facilities or defining new processes, employers can eliminate – or at least minimize – hazards before the work even starts. In reality, though, most EHS professionals are dealing ...

The phrase “go to the gemba,” one often quoted in lean environments, means going to an environment to understand how it works and why it works that way. Improvement does not happen in a vacuum. When ...

What is “gemba”? The Japanese term describes where the action is or where the actual work is performed. In manufacturing, that location is frequently the shop floor, where employees weld, machine, ...