Safety Performance in a Lean Environment

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Management Models

and Lean Processes

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

—Henry Ford

Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, many different management models have

been implemented, tested, and improved. A look at different management models from

a lean perspective allows us to determine what model ts the best when providing a

nished good or service. In lean enterprise, Henry Ford is considered by many to be

the grandfather of lean management and thinking, mostly for the simple reason of his

ability to mass-produce a nished good. Ford’s mistakes were opportunities to provide

what was missing ...