The phrase “go to the gemba,” one often quoted in lean environments, means going to an environment to understand how it works and why it works that way. Improvement does not happen in a vacuum. When ...

Applied to safety, the lean approach builds trust and fosters employee engagement, because employees are empowered to look for ways to make their jobs safer and easier. For the uninitiated, lean can ...

When building new facilities or defining new processes, employers can eliminate – or at least minimize – hazards before the work even starts. In reality, though, most EHS professionals are dealing ...

What is “gemba”? The Japanese term describes where the action is or where the actual work is performed. In manufacturing, that location is frequently the shop floor, where employees weld, machine, ...

As senior business leaders, it’s easy to slip into thinking that our role is to provide answers to the problems facing the company. And while coming up with solutions is a critical element of good ...