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Current role: HSE Officer Sector: Manufacturing - Automotive/Fluid Transfer Systems Qualification: NEBOSH Gen cert, 9001 audit training, soon to be IATF 16949 audit trained, various awareness/entry level courses for various H&S aspects. Goal: To get where ever i work to a level that i am no long...

Hello Madness Anodising that i have come across is normally a 3 - 7 step operation, this will normally depend on the end function, critical items will go through a long cleaning process, in general items will follow this routing: 1 Polishing 2 chemical cleaning 3 cleaning with distilled water or so...

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As above, people can sometime end up over reacting to an incident and a blanket policy comes into force. Sometimes i have seen mandatory safety shoes come into force more for uniform purposes. My question would be "what if someone grazed their shin, would that lead to knee high rigger boots?&qu...

Hey all, I did a search but couldnt see anything pop up so apologies if this has been raised before. My work are looking at introducing a small anodising kit to save money on sending stuff aware, reduce lead times and help get more customers. The kit they are looking at is only little and i have ema...

We recently implemented a 5s system and it has been beneficial to us. We hadnt really heard of it before, but the GM is ex Panasonic so was used to it. It has made the factory look a lot better, defined walkways and painted areas for items to be stored, where vehicles move etc. It has helped control...

Thank you, Alexis. Exciting times

Thank you all. Some really good advice and making me feel less nervous.

Just got to hand my notice in now and look forward to starting after Easter. thanks again. Really appreciated.

Hi Rochelle, Thanks, thats a good idea. I'm kind of lucky as where i am going they have a lot of good things in place, full 5s, six sigma etc you expect from automotive and only just moved into a new premise which was designed with them in mind. (still having to pinch myself at the moment as where i...

I have used outside contractors to test the vibratory tools on site, this gives a decent representation of the vibration magnitude as they use the actual tool in question to carry out the test. Using this with trigger time assessments you can calculate the overall exposure to the operator.

Thank you, Glen.

That sounds a great idea. I am happy being a sponge.

Congrats and well done on your recent change too.

I will start trying to find some trade magazines and highlight any shows on the calendar too to get some like minded contacts.

Thanks again

Thank you, Paddy. I agree, I like to have a decent rapport/relationship with the shop floor and try and get them onside or at least know they can raise things and they will be actioned on at least communicated back to them. Where i work now they are pretty hostile so i'm not too phased if they are a...