A company manufacturers medical products with both hazardous and non-hazardous elements. Products failing inspection that can't be reworked ended up as scrap. Scrap products containing hazardous components ended up in the hazardous waste stream. As you probably know, hazardous waste disposal costs are significantly greater than non-hazardous waste disposal costs.
A supervisor examined the hazardous waste scrap and found many products that could be disassembled quickly so hazardous components could be separated from the non-hazardous components. Indeed, since the products were scrap, rough disassembly methods such as break off and chop off could be used where applicable.
With very little labor, she reduced the on-hand hazardous waste to one-third, with the remaining two-thirds of the material moved to non-hazardous waste which in turn could be disposed of at substantially reduced cost.
About this post: Dan Pelley's Certificate in Supervisory Management programs include homework assignments so participants can apply what they learned directly to their jobs. The idea shared in this post originated in a homework answer submitted by a participant in Proactive Leadership.
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
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