Here’s a free Process Safety Management (PSM) compliance checklist you can download–nice!
The PSM checklist is based on a PSM Compliance Checklist available on OSHA’s website. We took the information in their checklist and made some minor changes to make it more user friendly.
It’s in the always-handy .PDF format, just scroll to the bottom of this article and click the button.
Hope you like the checklist. We’ve got more free downloadable checklists on other topics here.
Once again, our parent company Vector Solutions has published its monthly “blog round up” article, which features articles from different Vector Solutions brands (including your friends here at Convergence Training).
Here’s a listing of the different articles:
If we’ve sparked your interest, check out the August, 2019 Vector Solutions Blog Round-Up.
Are you new (or newish?) to food safety? Would you benefit from an introduction to terms commonly used to discuss food safety? Or maybe you’re a more experienced food safety expert and would just like a quick review & reminder?
If so, you’ll enjoy reviewing this article, as we’ve prepared a quick review of some basic and common food safety problems. We’ve drawn the material from a helpful resource created by the US FDA to help introduce good manufacturing practices (GMP and/or cGMP) titled “Definitions of Food Safety Problems.”
And before you go, be sure to download our free 7 Basic Tools of Quality Guide from the bottom of this article.
Organizations get a learning management system, or LMS, for a number of different reasons. Often, for some combination of reasons.
One very common reason that organizations get a learning management system is to stay on top of and document compliance training requirements.
In this article, we’ll give you a few key features to look for if you need an LMS to comply with mandatory training requirements.
And be sure to download the free LMS Buyer’s Guide from the bottom of this article, which has even more helpful information for you. And if you’re interested in compliance for safety training, check out our free Online Safety Training Buyer’s Guide Checklist and/or our Guide to MSHA Training Compliance Requirements.
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, in 2016 there are currently between 150,000 and 160,000 people employed in oil & gas extraction in the United States. The most common careers in the energy & oil industry include geoscientists; petroleum engineers; petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers; roustabouts (oil and gas); and wellhead pumpers.
According to OSHA, 489 oil and gas extraction workers were killed on the job between 2013 and 2017, making this a pretty dangerous industry.
In this article, we’ll review a few of the primary job hazards involved in oil and gas extraction and give you some tips and resources for training in the oil and gas industry.
5S is central to lean manufacturing, and it’s frequently one of the first parts of a lean manufacturing implementation at the workplace.
In this article, a continuation of a series of articles introducing key lean manufacturing tools and concepts, we’re going to briefly introduce you to 5S.
Before you begin reading about 5S, know that we’ve included a free What Is 5S? infographic at the bottom of this article.
Many organizations need to provide orientation materials to contractors, visitors, and vendors before those people can arrive on site. These orientations may cover safety but also things like HR compliance issues (sex harassment, inclusive workplace, etc.), privacy/trade secrets, and other legitimate concerns of the company as part of its enterprise risk management efforts.
In response, many companies try to create, deliver, and keep records of those orientations for contractors, visitors, and vendors. And that’s where the problems often begin.
Because your organization has expertise in making super-widgets (or cars, or airplanes, or machines, or paper, or…you get it), not contractor orientation materials and systems.
In this free downloadable guide (you can get it at the bottom of this article), we explain three common challenges organizations face related to contractor orientations and three simple solutions.
Download the free guide at the bottom of this article and also feel free to download our online contractor orientation buyer’s guide as well.
Does your company employ contractors? Probably.
Do you also have visitors and vendors on site? Again, probably.
Do you need to create safety orientation materials for those contractors, visitors, and vendors before they come on site? Probably.
And do you need an online delivery tool to that lets those contractors, vendors, and visitors complete their orientations and lets you run reports to see who’s done and who’s not? Probably.
At the bottom of this article, we’ve included a free Online Contractor Orientation Buyer’s Guide that you can download. It’s got some solid recommendations of the kind of stuff you should be looking for if you want to get your site-specific orientation materials online and get an online tool for self-registration, assignments, online delivery, crediting, tracking, reporting, notifications, and more.
So enjoy the buyer’s guide and feel free to check out our extensive article on best practices for contractor management as well.
Standardized work is an essential element of lean manufacturing.
It’s also got a non-intuitive name, because although standardized work sounds static, it’s actually a dynamic process (due to its lean manufacturing buddy, kaizen).
In this article, we’ll explain what standardized work is and explain its relation to kaizen within the lean manufacturing methodology, and we’ll give you some tips for getting started with standardized work now.
Before you begin reading about lean manufacturing and standardized work, know that we’ve included a free Five Principles of Lean Manufacturing infographic you can download at the bottom of this article, too!
We always enjoy an opportunity to talk about learning and developing materials to help people learn. And we always enjoy the opportunity to talk about using storytelling and scenarios to do that. And of course we always enjoy talking with our friend Anna Sabramowicz, an elearning developer who excels at all of this and who generously and freely shares advice and tips on doing this stuff and doing this well.
You may recall we’ve spoken with Anna about scenarios, stories, and training in the past. She’s been nice enough to “stop by” for a chat again, and we’ve included a transcription of that conversation below. We hope you enjoy the conversation and we thank Anna for time and experience.
Also, know that this discussion with Anna, in which Jeff Dalto interviewed Anna, was part of a longer discussion that begin with Anna interviewing Jeff. You can click here to see that earlier discussion at Anna’s YouTube channel. Thanks to Anna for that.
Dr. Tom Baer is an instructional designer with Puget Sound Energy (PSE) in the Seattle, WA area.
Faced with changes in the industry, PSE has recently doubled-down on their investment in instructional design and training at their organization. Tom was hired to perform instructional design work as part of that increased emphasis on instructional design at PSE, and he was nice enough to take some time and explain some of the instructional design opportunities in this industry.
We’ve got a recording of the discussion with Tom immediately below. And if you’d prefer to read, we’ve got a transcript below that.
We’d like to thank both Tom and Puget Sound Energy for their contributions to this discussion and tip our hats to them on their hard work. Hopefully, we’ll touch base with them again at some future point for an additional conversation (fingers crossed).
As a continuation of our look at key concepts in lean manufacturing, this article is going to explain value stream mapping.
Value stream mapping is an important part of attaining the general lean goal of reducing waste in manufacturing (or in any workplace).
Before you begin reading about value stream mapping, know that we’ve included a free lean manufacturing infographic you can download at the bottom of this article, too!