IMPrint Issue 7 - IMP Group

STAFF JOINT OCCUPATIONALHEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEESubmitted By: Robert PresseauI.M.P. is excited to announce the formation of the Staff JointOccupational Health and Safety (SJOH&S) Committee made up offour members from staff positions and three management positions.The current members that make up the SJOH&S Committee areJames Friars, Nick McGrath, Robert Presseau, Mandy Upshall,Scott Dorey, Bob Ladley and Tony Lindley.The purpose of the SJOH&S Committee is to foster aco-operative spirit between management and staff in mattersrelated to accident prevention and occupational safety and health.The mandate of the SJOH&S committee is to advisemanagement on safety related problems which are related tonon-production areas. The role of the committee is to maintain andpromote enthusiasm and interest in the safety program, provide anadvisory group to study, analyze and report on problems inoccupational safety and health, participate in inspections andinvestigations and ensure compliance with the Canada LabourCode Part 2.From left to right are: Tony Lindley, Scott Dorey, Nick McGrath, Robert Presseau,James Friars and Mandy Upshall (missing is Bob Ladley).5S EVENT AT I.M.P. AEROSTRUCTURESSubmitted By: Craig HallA large 5S event was held in April at I.M.P. AeroStructures to improvethe mezzanine assembly operations. The goal was to better organizethe workplace and improve productivity. A full team of 30 productionand support employees spent the day working on 5S improvements.The day started with refresher training on 5S, followed by a large“Sort”. A significant amount of unnecessary items were removed fromthe work area. Work cell layouts were fine-tuned, tooling wasorganized, visibility boards were made and point-of-use hardware wasintroduced. The six sub teams spent the last hour of the day reportingon their achievements and the required next steps.Production Manager Pat Brine remarked “I was very impressed tosee the entire team working together towards a common improvementgoal.”While we approached the 5S event with the goal of “no homework”,the last few weeks have been busy working on follow up items fromthe event. Overall the event was a great success and resulted inenhanced workplace processes. Congratulations to all the productionand support employees involved.GOING GREENSubmitted By: Heather MercerThe First Earth day onApril 22,1970 involved over20 million Americans and wasaccredited for launching themodern environmental movement.In 1990, two million Canadiansjoined 200 million people in 141nations in celebrating the very firstInternational Earth Day. Sincethen, International Earth Day has raised environmental awarenessaround the world. Our younger generation of Canadians are farmore eco informed than the generations before them. Now in 2011,more than six million Canadians joined with over one billion peoplein over 180 countries to celebrate and raise environmentalawareness on Earth Day, still a small fraction of the earth’spopulation but a step in the right direction.In Canada, Earth Day has now grown into Earth Week and evenEarth Month to accommodate the ever-growing number of eventsand projects. We can all do our own part to help raise awarenessand to take care of our earth. No act is too small and every little bithelps. Recycling has become a necessity and encouragingrecycling at work can introduce a good habit of recycling at homethat you may not have considered before. The more people that areon board with recycling, the better our world will continue tobecome. So why not take action today? You can start withsomething as small as using a reusable container for your food anddrink at work each day or by using both sides of the paper whenprinting. Why not take on more ownership of minimizing waste andreducing your energy consumption? You can start by making yourown list of things you can do to improve your work and homeenvironment and make the pledge to make an act of “Green”. Youcan make the pledge at the following website:http://act.earthday.org/. Just because Earth Day has come andgone does not mean we cannot make every day Earth Day in ourlives. Happy recycling everyone.Photo to the right showssome of theitems removed.Below shows thebefore and afterTool Box CleanupTheKaizenTeam