#446 – CHANGES IN OH&S IN 2024 – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Today, employee wellness and safety remain a top priority for corporations, and having a first-in-class safety management system put in place is not just a nice-to-have, it’s essential. As digital capabilities continue to evolve, modernizing ineffective, slow, and expensive processes with renewed tools is one way to invest in industrial & occupational safety professionals and improve workplace health and safety. Continue reading

#446 – NEW RULES FOR WORK – GREG HUTCHINS

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If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.
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FOW process rules are guidelines, tips and tools that can lead to success. Thomas Davenport,

The author of Thinking for a Living, said:

“To treat something as a process is to impose a formal structure on it – to identify its beginning, end, and intermediate steps, to clarify who the customer is for it, to measure it, to take stock of how well it is currently being performed, and ultimately to improve Continue reading

#445 – BRINGING AI UP TO SPEED – AUTONOMOUS AUTO RACING – MADHUR BEHI PH.D.

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The excitement of auto racing comes from split-second decisions and daring passes by fearless drivers. Imagine that scene, but without the driver – the car alone, guided by the invisible hand of artificial intelligence. Can the rush of racing unfold without a driver steering the course? It turns out that it can. Continue reading

#445 – SUPPLIER RELIABILITY PROGRAM MATURITY – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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It was late Friday afternoon and the phone rang. Which is rarely a good thing.

There seems to a significant spike in field failures due to one component. The initial failure analysis work reveals the issue started with a batch of parts received about two months ago and the flaw continues to appear in subsequent batches. Continue reading

#445 – EXECUTIVE LIABILITY IN OHS&E (MINI-COURSE) – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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Corporate officers and directors are generally responsible for ensuring that their companies comply with Occupational Health, Safety & Environmental laws is a truism. At the same time, they’re not automatically liable just because their companies commit an OHS or environmental offence. There are 3 basic theories for holding officers and directors personally liable for a company’s legal violations: Continue reading