The document discusses the importance of visual management and safety in the workplace. It argues that 83% of what we learn is visual and that a safe workplace is a visual workplace. It then provides a roadmap for creating a visual workplace that includes organizing the workplace, setting standards, measuring performance, and continually improving. A key part of the roadmap is developing a safety roadmap that identifies missing safety information and addresses areas like first aid, emergency response, safety metrics, lock-out/tag-out procedures, personal protective equipment, maintenance, and hazardous materials. The overall goal is to use visual cues to direct behavior, eliminate risks, and reduce workplace injuries.
2. Creating a Safe Work Environment
83% of what we learn is visual?
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3. A safe workplace is a visual workplace!
A Visual workplace is
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• …an environment that speaks for itself.
Identifies and eliminates abnormal situations
Directs behavior
Eliminates missing information
Reduces injury
Uses Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to reveal
opportunities for improvement
4. Benefits a Visual Workplace
A visual workplace creates employee engagement paving a path
for continuous improvement.
Increased quality
Increased machine efficiency
Increased throughput
Reduced scrap
Reduced setup time
Reduced inventory
Reduced injuries
Standardized work
Sustainable workplace organization
5. A Road Map for a Visual Workplace
Visual Workplace
Learn to see waste and opportunities for improvement
Organize your workplace
Set standards for each element of a visual workplace
• Leadership
• Territories
• Process
• Work instructions
• Scoreboards
• Safety
Measure your performance and improve
6. Safety Road Map
A safe workplace
requires more than
just a few signs here
and there!
8. Creating a Safety Road Map
• Step 1
Start by making sure that safety items have procedures are
visually identified, unobstructed and inspected regularly.
9. Creating a Safety Road Map
• Step 2
Identify missing information by asking questions. A repeated
question in the workplace usually indicates a need for a visual
system.
10. Creating a Safety Road Map
• Step 3
Translate the missing information into you’re road map.
Trends Material Handling Daily Huddles
Scoreboards Storage Cleanliness
Metrics Workplace
Audits Lifting Organization
Goals Training
Standard Work Maintenance
PPE Work Instructions Quality
Lock Out/Tag Out Inspection
Pinch Points Evacuation
Circuit Breakers Fire Safety First Aid
Navigation Injuries
Hazardous Materials First Responders
MSDS
11. Safety Road Map
First Aid
Are first aid supplies controlled
using kanban cards and indicate
instruction for use?
12. Safety Road Map
First Responders
Are first responders for the facility visually
identified by department or shift?
13. Safety Road Map
Safety Sam
Use your creativity
when developing
visual systems!
When this facility
has a recordable
injury, Safety Sam’s
hat is changed from
Green to Red for
that day.
14. Safety Road Map
Metrics
Year to date
performance is
displayed at a
glance!
15. Safety Road Map
Trends
Department
performance is
tracked and used by
the management
team to further
analyze root cause.
16. Safety Road Map
Are safety stations stocked regularly and
Accessibility easily accessible?
17. Safety Road Map
Lock Out/Tag Out
Are procedures
clearly identified and
include the proper
items for Lock Out /
Tag Out processes?
18. Safety Road Map
PPE
Do you have the
necessary equipment
available at the point of
use?
19. Safety Road Map
PPE
Are your PPE instructions
clearly displayed and at the
point of use?
20. Safety Road Map
Maintenance
Is your maintenance area organized to support operational safety?
43. Safety Road Map
Storage
Are stacking restrictions signified by color or the placement of
signage that obstructs stacking anything higher than the sign?
44. A Visual & Safe Workplace
Visual information is essential for making safe decisions!
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So what is a visual workplace? It is an environment that speaks for itself. That means all of the repeated questions that are asked every hour, day or week disappear. Instead of people answering the questions, the workplace answers them. Think about how much time we spend answering questions every day. Ultimately, your workplace should answer the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW without talking.A visual workplace will identify and eliminate abnormal situations.If you walk by a machine that is not running, you should ask yourself, “Why?” Is it scheduled for maintenance? That is a normal situation. But if is not running because you are out of packaging, that is not normal. The problem for most companies is that these abnormal situations are not easily recognizable.
A commitment to implementing a visual workplace starts with your leadership. When an organization becomes fully engaged with the principles of visual management, the benefits are seen throughout the entire value stream. Safety is one are that can be greatly influenced through visual management. Creating a safe workplace is the ultimate goal. Without defining standard work expectations this is very difficult.
Engage your employees by educating them on the principles of Visual Management and teaching them to see opportunities for improvement. The next step is to create a road map for implementing a visual workplace. It begins with developing a series of questions within these 6 categories and identifying missing information in your workplace. Once the missing information is identified, creating a system for the information must be developed and implemented. These categories give you a road map for looking for missing information.
What information is missing in your facility? This missing information becomes the basis for creating a road map for improvement.These are just a few areas that should be evaluated for missing information. Considerations: First Aid Workplace Organization Evacuation MSDS Metrics
We will now take you through a series of questions that you can ask in your facility and provide you with examples showing how others have addressed these issues.
This is glimpse of a the visual systems at water bottling plant in Canada. Canada’s safety regulations are very stringent. The penalties for recordable injuries are costly so they go to great lengths to prevent accidents. Their display of first responders was very impressive.
Not every visual system requires a sign. While on a plant tour and I noticed a manikin near the companies KPI center. His name was Safety Sam. As we were standing there a gentleman came up to Safety Sam and switch his hat. The hat he had on before was green. I asked, “Why the change?”, our guide responded, “there must have been a recordable accident”. Their creativity and their communication was impressive. Safety Sam stood in the plant where nearly every employee walked by each day. They all new what was going on.
To take it even further, Sam wore a display the showed at a glance how many injuries to date had been recorded using the safety cross. Safety was very important to this company and they went to great lengths to let everyone know what their past performance was.
They weren’t done yet. The created a map of the facility that tracked where the injuries occurred. Are there trends happening that we don’t even realize? Scoreboards help you identify…Who, What, When? Once this information has been identified we can determine Why.
In this facility everyone was required to wear a hard outside the office area. When deliveries were made the truck drivers were always walking off the hard hats. They were costly and were always have to be replaced. To deter this from happening they created a color code system for the hats. Pink hats were designated specifically for truck drivers, sudddenly the hats stopped disappearing. In addition to making sure that hard hats did not vanish, they company added the forklift certification to the had of each employee as necessary. Information became visible at a glance.
Here is an example of a visual system used to sustain cleanliness that incorporates the entire team. Tasks are first divided into daily, weekly, and monthly frequency. A card is created for each task and then filed in a card holder. The color of the card identifies the frequency of the task and what action is required. When the task is complete, the card is turned over. It is easy to see when tasks have not been completed or if the team is behind schedule. At the beginning of each cycle, the cards are turned back over to be completed again.The owners of the scoreboard are clearly displayed. If questions come up, you know who to ask.Additional data points for Suggestions, Open Action Items, and Audits are available at a glance.
It is usually fairly easy to identify waste spent search for the tools needed to do our job. But what about the time spent searching for information? This visual system addressed that very issue. Before – Operators frequently had to stop and replace MSDS labels on containers for different oils because they fell off. Searching for the correct MSDS label was time consuming, as you can see just by the size of the book.After – The Safety Manager realized that there were only about 10 different materials used 80% of the time. They created a visual displaying these top 10 and now the time spent replacing MSDS labels was almost eliminated.
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