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Zero period process—a description of a process to zero injuries
Author(s) -
Squire Richard H.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
process safety progress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.378
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1547-5913
pISSN - 1066-8527
DOI - 10.1002/prs.680200106
Subject(s) - zero (linguistics) , speculation , process (computing) , zero tolerance , zero emission , work (physics) , period (music) , engineering , ground zero , forensic engineering , aeronautics , computer science , business , mechanical engineering , physics , political science , waste management , law , philosophy , finance , acoustics , linguistics , operating system
At the Dupont plant, located in Belle, West Virginia, we have marked three years without an OSHA recordable injury. While earlier speculation suggested that a process might exist to accomplish this sustainable level of performance, the road to actually developing the needed processes was not at all straightforward. We have summarized this work in the paper.