Take 5 for Safety

Audits of E and OSH Management Systems

External Audit (BNL Consultants) for EMS Management System

Thursday Will examine 5 EMS (ISO 14001) areas:

4.4.3 Communication 4.4.5 Control of documents 4.5.4 Control of records 4.4.6 Operational control 4.4.7 Emergency response

Possible finding to date: no formal checklist of employee responsibilities when transfer to inter or intra-department

Internal Audit (Dick Savage and Joe Montalto) for EMS and OSH Management Systems

All this week Aimed at passing re-registration in May

All Sections of ISO 14001 standard are audited All Sections of OHSAS 18001 are audited Possible findings so far:

Many OPM procedures are outside 3-year review cycle Group generated OPM procedures may not be consistent

A New Management System?

Two rules: No one

has right of way

If in doubt, then yield

Swarm Intelligence Management System

Work together is self-organized and unsupervised Collectively find efficient solutions to difficult problems Can adapt automatically to changing environments

Hewlett-Packard developed the most efficient way to route phone traffic over a network using swarm model

Southwest Airlines used a similar model to route cargo Northwestern University devised a system for painting trucks

In the future, the modelers speculate, a company might structure its entire business using swarm intelligence

Déjà vu all over again