Comments on: NUMMI and Worker Health http://www.leanblog.org/2006/03/nummi-and-worker-health/ Mark Graban's leanblog.org - Lean Healthcare, Lean Thinking, Lean Manufacturing, Toyota Production System Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:26:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Duckworth http://www.leanblog.org/2006/03/nummi-and-worker-health/#comment-930 David Duckworth Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:24:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2006/03/nummi-and-worker-health/#comment-930 This is one area where GM has taken the lead. In the past 10 years there has been a significant effort to improve the overall health and safety of all employees. The first goal was to be the best in the industry and now is to be the best of any industry. Look up the Gov't reports and you will see that Toyota is FAR behind in this area. GM has learned alot from Toyota about focusing on a problem, understanding it completely, driving out the variation and continually finding ways to improve. <br/><br/>Meetings start with a Safety review. Plants get measured on their safety performance. It is taken very seriously. <br/><br/>To Anonymous: This is not the old GM. This is one area where GM has taken the lead. In the past 10 years there has been a significant effort to improve the overall health and safety of all employees. The first goal was to be the best in the industry and now is to be the best of any industry. Look up the Gov’t reports and you will see that Toyota is FAR behind in this area. GM has learned alot from Toyota about focusing on a problem, understanding it completely, driving out the variation and continually finding ways to improve.

Meetings start with a Safety review. Plants get measured on their safety performance. It is taken very seriously.

To Anonymous: This is not the old GM.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://www.leanblog.org/2006/03/nummi-and-worker-health/#comment-430 Anonymous Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:44:00 +0000 http://leanblog.bigbigdesign.net/2006/03/nummi-and-worker-health/#comment-430 Here @ Nummi,(Toyota / G/M joint venture) safety is the overriding priority. Ergonomics is actually a science where every element of the job is rated on forces necessary to perform the required work. Air circulators are installed for every operation. The old G/M did not have an ergo task force, air circulators, etc. Here @ Nummi,(Toyota / G/M joint venture) safety is the overriding priority. Ergonomics is actually a science where every element of the job is rated on forces necessary to perform the required work. Air circulators are installed for every operation. The old G/M did not have an ergo task force, air circulators, etc.

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