Continuous Improvement Principles
Important principles have evolved from companies that perform continuous safety improvement planning and implementation; they represent best practices in continuous safety improvement:
- Determine the current situation using objective (fact-based) data analysis, not subjective feelings.
- Set a goal to always address the root causes/system weaknesses. Assume root causes always exist.
- Focus work and resources on the people, machines, and systems that add value.
- Improve safety processes through continuous controlled experimentation using the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) and other methods.
- Make decisions based on long-term systems improvement.
- Update or create standardized processes to reduce variation and waste, and promote continuous improvement.
- Employ partnering and knowledge sharing within the company and with external suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders.
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10-4. Continuous improvement decision-making must be based on _____.
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