Understanding accidents
With so much focus on health and safety at work, most people would be forgiven for believing that workplace injuries and fatalities should now be a rare phenomenon.
With so much focus on health and safety at work, most people would be forgiven for believing that workplace injuries and fatalities should now be a rare phenomenon.
While many leading manufacturers have been practising Lean for years, there are still gains to be made – especially in overlooked areas like industrial supplies and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
EEF chief executive Terry Scuoler asks manufacturers to make export growth their New Year resolution.
Terry Scuoler, chief executive of EEF pinpoints the underlying flaws which could still nobble industry in the UK’s improving rebalancing act.
Gordon Attenborough, sector head of design & production at the
Institution of Engineering and Technology calls for cross-sector innovation to optimise UK manufacturing competitiveness.
Roberto Priolo, editor of Lean Management Journal, challenges process improvement professionals to embrace the devil they do not yet know.
Fuel pump failures and personnel problems with chicken pox.
Terry Scuoler, chief executive of EEF sets out the manufacturing sector’s stall in the tax avoidance debate and urges government not to forget the need for growth when contemplating action.
Are you doing enough? Dr Tony Whitehead, IET director of policy challenges engineering employers on their existing approach to skills.
This month’s Last Word is delivered by guest writer Hugh Scullion, general secretary of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. He states the case for renewal of the UK’s Vanguard fleet of submarines as government prepares to publish its Trident Alternatives Review this summer.