What did Albert Einstein, Ludwig von Beethoven, Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie and George Washington Carver all have in common? They were all extraordinarily tapped into the imaginative and visual power of the right brain. Playing with jigsaw puzzles daily will tap into the right brain and will could help reduce the risk of dementia. 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
Every day we are exposed to all types of hazards, but what really makes these hazards become risks.
For the past 30 years, I’ve been involved in one way or another, investigating the root causes of failure modes be it a system, process, person, plant or product. During this time I’ve applied different problem-solving tools like “FMEA, 8D, 5Whys, FEA’s, DMAIC etc” in order to find the true root cause of this failure mode. Only to get frustrated, thinking I had found the root cause, only 3 months later a new failure mode would come to the surface. Continue reading