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SAFETY STRATEGIES performance, including trending. Among other things: ■ Capture, report, and analyze near misses. ■ Develop, implement, and communicate a site-safety scorecard in a highly visible way. ■ Employ leading and lagging indicators. ■ Use a robust, corrective-action tracking process, not just for root-cause items, but for all safety-related issues. Al Poling has more than 35 years of reliability and maintenance experience and is a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP). His consultancy, RAM Analytics, is located in Houston. For more information and/or to offer additional safety tips, contact him at al.poling@ramanalytics.net. LEARN MORE Strengthening commitment In summary, injury-free performance begins with a personal commitment from those in a position to set expectations. Individual accountability is a prerequisite, without which improvement efforts will be ineffective. A comprehensive safety strategy provides a roadmap and should be supported with realistic goals and objectives. Managing safety policies and procedures and soliciting input from those to whom they will apply are crucial aspects of robust safety programs and associated training-which should engage employees and contractors alike. Measuring and reporting safety performance continuously, and educating workers so they know how to recognize and analyze risks and interpret results are key. In the process, your operations will be making safety, and, by extension, a commitment to injury-free performance, a core value, not a mere slogan. MT For additional information, see: "Partnering for Safety" maintenancetechnology.com/2008/03/partnering-for-safety/ "Basic Safety Considerations" maintenancetechnology.com/2012/06/the-fundamentals-basic-safety-considerations/ "All Maintenance Must Be Intelligence-Based' maintenancetechnology.com/2011/04/all-maintenancemust-be-intelligence-based/ "Frequently Cited OSHA Safety Violations..." maintenancetechnology.com/2014/09/frequently-citedosha-safety-violations-avoid/ "5 Steps to a Safer Manufacturing Facility" maintenancetechnology.com/2014/12/5-steps-safermanufacturing-facility-2/ "Train, Audit Electrical Workers: It's Mandatory" maintenancetechnology.com/2015/07/train-audit-electricalworkers-its-mandatory/ BOARD MEMBER COMPANIES: LOOK FOR US AT THE SMRP CONFERENCE Since its inception in 1990, the Maintenance Excellence Roundtable (MER) has served as a coalition of plant-engineering practitioners engaged in advancing asset-management practices. The collaborative approach to MER provides our members with the opportunity to establish external network relationships with peer industry experts. October 17-20, 2016 Looking for ways to benchmark your organization and advance its capabilities? MER is accepting appplications for two open board-member companies interested in advancing their knowledge and skills in reliability and maintenance and building their professional networking and business connections. Areas of collaboration include: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Technical Leadership Development Asset-Management Practices Industry Benchmarking Data & Metrics Organizational Health & Design Maintenance Management Systems & ERP Recruiting & Technical Capabilities SEPTEMBER 2016 FOR MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION CONTACT: Rebekah Wojak, CMRP 2016 MER Chair Tel: 812-230-6088 rebekah.wojak-1@dupont.com Jason Vaughan, CMRP 2016 MER Co-Chair Tel: 609-963-6324 jason.vaughan@fmc.com MAINTENANCETECHNOLOGY.COM | 23 http://www.maintenancetechnology.com/2008/03/partnering-for-safety/ http://www.maintenancetechnology.com/2012/06/the-fundamen http://www.maintenancetechnology.com/2011/04/all-maintenance http://www.maintenancetechnology.com/2014/09/frequently-cited-osha-safety-violations-avoid http://www.maintenancetechnology.com/2014/12/5-steps-safer-manufacturing-facility-2 http://www.maintenancetechnology.com/2015/07/train-audit-electrical-workers-its-mandatory http://www.MAINTENANCETECHNOLOGY.COM

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