Title: Accident Rate (AR) is too high for the standards set by management.
Definition of the Problem:
management strongly needs its accident rate to be lowered in order to assess higher performance in the production line. This rate corresponds to the number of days lost per employee each year due to accidents on the workplace.
Objectives:
Principal Objective:
To assess an effective facility layout that strategically locates equipment, materials, employees and data collecting points, in order to minimize movement, handling and travel distance of the material and labor while decreasing accident rates from five percent to three percent.
Specific Objectives:
•Develop and implement the 5-S’s checklist system that contributes to maintaining a lean workplace.
•Verify material handling procedures to evaluate processes’ safety.
•Assessments of how risky machineries and equipments are, in the production line, to evaluate if replacement or relocation is needed in order to decrease accident rates.
•Identify potential accident zones and label them with warning signs and signals.
•Monitor flow of materials throughout the plant to detect failure points.
Research Methodology:
•Survey employees and managers to collect insight data about flow of materials containing potential and already identified accident areas.
•Conduct a thorough investigation in the production line to detect, by observation, which machines or processes require labeling in order to gain employee awareness. Observing how machines and equipment are operated will help us focus on the different safety requirements that each one needs and the importance of labeling them.
•Collect internal data from the company’s headquarters to see how other field plants have ...