Tag: Mistake-Proofing

Huge Price Paid for Stupid, Careless Medical Error | TortdeformLots of discussion of the sad case of the mixed up laboratory specimens and Darrie...

Medical mix-up, unnecessary mastectomy - Health - MSNBC.com This will happen again, unless the process is fixed. Lean can help. Please read on... I...

Patient Safety Blog - Telling Our StoriesHere is an unfortunate story about a surgeon operating on the wrong side of an 86 year-old man,...

How would you error proof this material handling / logistics situation? I have a few ideas, but thought this would make for interesting discussion....

I don't know if this is a new Gmail feature, or if I just discovered it, but there's some nice error proofing built into...

Thursday: Newer pools minimize risk of drain accidents, officials sayYou might have seen this heartbreaking story on the news, the 6 year-old girl who...

Cubicle Culture - WSJ.com:As the WSJ article mentions, my wife's purse sometimes calls me... her Blackberry sometimes calls me if she didn't put the...

Dan Evans' VBA Scripts - Outlook Attachment Checker etcLifeHacker PostHave you ever composed an email, meaning to attach a file, even saying something like...

I could have also titled this post "I screwed up!" or "Who Screwed Up? Me!" but we try not to point the finger...

Another great thought from David Mann this week was highlighting how a Lean culture will "embrace it's misses" rather than try to cover them...

By Dan MarkovitzBack in October, Lifehacker ran a lengthy article on "personal kaizen." The thrust of the piece is how we can improve...

Hospitals try to reduce wristband code risksTo put this in manufacturing terms, imagine how you might have to change your process if your product...