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#397 – HOW TO ADOPT WORLD CLASS MAINTENANCE – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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This article will be providing “World Class Maintenance” Best Practices.  As I write this article, I like to ask what people are saying about this topic.

Best Maintenance Repair Practices

Several surveys conducted in industries throughout the world have found that 70% of equipment failures are self-induced. Maintenance personnel who are not following what is termed ‘Best Maintenance Repair Practices’ substantially affect these failures. Between 30% and 50% of the self-induced failures are the result of maintenance personnel not knowing the basics of maintenance. Continue reading →

#396 – MEASURING THE SUCCESS OF YOUR RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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We see the value of enterprise risk management everywhere we look. We see it in the news, we can see it in our customers’ success, We can even see it on the roads in speed limit signs. We know that risk management is deeply enmeshed in both the success and failures of the corporate world and beyond. Continue reading →

#394 – EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & RESPONSE – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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The start of fall might feel too soon to begin preparing for next winter. But with memories of snowstorms fresh in your mind, now is the perfect time to review your emergency response plans. Preparing emergency response plans of time also means you’ll be ready when snow, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, drought, or other types of severe weather hit. Continue reading →

#392 – LESSONS LEARNED IN OIL/GAS – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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My first job after college was with Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) at which time in the 1960’s the chemical process industries far outstripped that of the rest of the manufacturing industries.

My second job was as a pioneer in the development of the North Sea, the expansion in search for oil and gas, leading in time to petroleum refining, the most hazardous of all offshore rolls at the time, was hookups, which is building the field, which was developed by a single central combined drilling and production platform. Continue reading →

#389 – CANADIAN TRANSPARENCY (OR LACK THERE OF) – EDITORIAL – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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It makes me mad and sad, that with all the perks and Inflated salaries Canada’s government has come off badly again in Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index, with the country’s score falling faster than that of any other country in the 180-nation rankings released this week. Canada’s score has dropped to its lowest ever, 74 out of 100 a slide that has cost Canada eight points over the past five years alone. Continue reading →