Your chemically-related workplace:
Safety and Health
Potential chemical hazards and their related risks may include:
- chemical burns
- leaks and spills
- toxicity
- static electricity
- fire/explosion
- dust explosion
- pollution
- confined spaces
- acute and chronic health concerns
- mould
- process-process interactions
- legal problems
I can work with you to reduce your hazards and risks.
Managing your hazardous materials
Replace your hazardous materials wherever possible.
Substitute with less hazardous materials.
Reduce the hazardous materials in your processing.
Isolate your hazardous materials.
Place engineered controls in your hazardous materials process.
Consider adopting a standard safety management system.
I can work with you on these concerns.
Environment
Managing your hazardous materials
Replace/substitute your hazardous materials.
Isolate your hazardous materials.
Reuse the hazardous materials in other likely processes.
Place engineered controls in your hazardous materials process.
Recycle your hazardous materials.
Destroy your hazardous material wastes.
Consider adopting a standard environmental management system.
I can work with you on these concerns.
Good housekeeping and the 5S system
5S relates to 5 Japanese words, which generally translate to:
Organization, Orderliness, Cleanliness, Standardized Cleanup, Discipline.
Good housekeeping and the 5S system work very well together.
I can help you with this system.
Good housekeeping allows you to spot hazards quicker.
Spot chemical spills. Spot chemical leaks. Spot mould in its early stage.
Eliminate combustible dusts. Arrange connections for static electricity.
Arrange for used chemical disposal.
I can work with you improve your housekeeping.
Quality
Managing your hazardous materials
Know their working condition through regular testing.
Look for test irregularities and trends.
Be aware of any byproduct accumulation and the need to remove it.
Check any mechanical application tools regularly for efficiency.
I can work with you on these concerns.
Managing your product quality
Measure customer-specified characteristics frequently.
Maintain a continuous/incremental quality improvement program.
Consider focused quality improvement, for significant change, leading to Six Sigma.
Reduce process variations.
Reduce your scrap and rework.
Eliminate/reduce non-value-added operations, leading to a Lean system.
Consider adopting a standard quality management system.
I can work with you on these concerns.
My Help is Affordable
Being semi-retired, I do not charge regular consulting fees. Ask about my short-term Cdn$35/$20/hr. fee combination for projects, i.e. essentially my work. Ask about my Cdn$25/hr. fee for technical support for your day-to-day and/or development activities, working closely with your team(s). I will accept as little as a four-hour week, for five weeks, i.e. a Cdn$500 investment. Travel charges may be necessary.