Newswise — Georgia Tech Professional Education will conduct a Lean and Safe: Safety-Integrated Process Improvement course (MFG 2003) Nov. 6-8, 2012 at the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus. Participants will learn about the importance of developing an integrated approach for production processes and safety outcomes. When utilized together, companies can see increased benefits in productivity and costs.
“Implementing Lean principles and good safety practices together should be a gradual process for companies that have historically operated the two separately (if at all),” says Tim Israel, group manager for Lean Enterprise and Quality Services at the Georgia Institute of Technology Enterprise Innovation Institute. “Our new Georgia Tech Lean Safety course introduces the Safety Integrated Process Improvement Method, which allows safety professionals and Lean production managers to speak the same language, solve problems together, and begin merging their efforts to improve manufacturing processes.”
The course targets a broad range of occupations including: safety and health professionals, process improvement specialists, industrial engineers, and managers. Participants will learn to apply safety metrics to Value Stream Mapping (VSM) for process improvements, understand the ‘lean and safe’ toolkit, and identify waste in processes within a simulation-based learning experience.
Georgia Tech faculty Tom Sammon, Tara Barrett, and Damon Nix help participants form a ‘lean and safe’ organization. Sammon, a Lean Services project manager for the Georgia Institute of Technology, has previously worked with the Panasonic Robotics Group, Procter & Gamble, and Colgate-Palmolive. Barrett, a Lean Services project manager for Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, has worked as a project manager implementing Lean training for US firms located overseas near Shanghai and Beijing. Nix, a Safety Specialist with the Georgia Tech Safety and Health Consultation Program, provides safety and health consultation services to small businesses throughout Georgia.
For more information or to register for the course,visit: www.gtpe.gatech.edu/lean-safe. For a list of all upcoming Georgia Tech Professional Education courses in Savannah, visit: http://www.gtpe.gatech.edu/gts-fall.
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About Georgia Tech Professional Education:
Georgia Tech Professional Education is an academic division of the Georgia Institute of Technology, which consistently ranks as one of the nation’s top 10 public universities by U.S. News & World Report. Professional Education offers professional master's programs, short courses, and certificate programs to meet the needs of working professionals and industry partners. Programs are available worldwide through a variety of face-to-face, blended learning, and online formats. In addition to professional course offerings, the division administers K-12 outreach and English as a Second Language programs, and manages meeting and event facilities. Professional Education serves and educates more than 3,100 companies and over 13,000 individuals on an annual basis, and is located at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center in Atlanta and at the Georgia Tech-Savannah campus.
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