How would safety projects and accident avoidance be calculated in savings?

I would first discuss with your finance person or operations person to get a sense of the different factors that are important to your industry. Ultimately there can be both hard and soft dollar savings here. The hard dollar savings may be less injuries, and less $$ spent on employee injuries, missed workdays and disability…

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Tracy O'Rourke

Tracy is a Master Black Belt at GoLeanSixSigma.com, the co-author of The Problem-Solver’s Toolkit and co-host of the Just-in-Time Cafe. She is also a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Instructor at UC San Diego and teaches in San Diego State University’s Lean Enterprise Program. For almost 20 years, she has helped leading organizations like Washington State, Charles Schwab and GE build problem-solving muscles.