Statistically, women earn less than men, but when you look at the same job and the same skill set, the wage disparity is lower than you’d think, according to Pay Scale.
Often the wage difference between men and women has little to do with skill set. Many times it all boils down to how a person perceives themselves and their self-worth. Confidence plays a big factor. Having the guts to ask for more money often equates to earning more. Continue reading
Gathering Field Failure DataA common and rather poor technique to gather field data is to count the number of returns by week or month. This can provide a graph showing the number of returns over time. However, it hides useful information you need to understand your field failures.
Let’s take a look at a way to gather the same field failure data and retain the critical information necessary for time-to-failure analysis. Continue reading
Did you know on average around 30% of all organisations do not know what they own, where their assets are located or who is using them; and over 65% of information recorded on asset registers is incomplete, inaccurate or even missing. What’s more concerning is a number of these assets may not be statutory compliant e.g passenger/good/DDA lifts, fire, gas, pressure asset etc.
How effective is your asset management system and how accurate is your asset register; To find out please answers below the following questions Continue reading
Some weeks ago I wrote an article on all AB (accreditation bodies) and CB ( certification Bodies) should join up with institutes to ensure hard working companies do not get conned by using ISO management standard consultants claiming to be experts and non- UKAS approved certifying companies.
I recently was asked by two companies to carry out independent 2nd party audits. Continue reading
Are you a (Systems Controlled & People Driven) or a (People Controlled and People Driven) organisation?
Every day we hear of organisations failure to prevent accidents, environmental incidents, non-conformities, product recalls and at worst a child, adult or an animal was killed. Continue reading