Monday, July 21, 2008

Lessons Learned Systems – Mining & LLS Process Flows

The local Australian mining and engineering sector is currently booming. The cyclical nature of demand for this sector, and the transient nature of the workforce, helps keep the mining sector at the forefront; when it comes to embedding efficiency gains in the business process.

There is currently a high level of interest in automating that systemic change through the practical deployment of Lessons Learned Systems.

While most of the recent interest has been from the mining sector, any enterprise size organisations can benefit from using a Lessons Learned System; is an invaluable tool to ensure that investments made in process innovation and risk management are rapidly transferred across the whole organisation.

Regulators and Industry bodies can apply the same principles to quickly transfer learning’s across a whole sector.

The mining sector, like other multi-site enterprises (banks, supermarkets, government departments,hospitals & manufacturing plants) have many sites performing similar functions and/or using similar equipment to deliver similar goods and services; lessons learned are readily transferred.

Failing to effectively record and share information about new innovations and solutions to new and old problems is not only a systemic waste of resources it can result in latent risks not being corrected in a timely manner. This latter point often revealed after an accident or significant adverse event has occurred; when it is all too late, the special investigation reveals that some work locations had good practices in place that could have prevented the critical event.

Below is posted three of the most common approaches to the Lessons Learned System as a process flow.

Blog posts still to come have a more detailed explanation of each step in the process flow.

For more information please feel free to call or send an email to
srp@systemic-resilient-precision.biz

Lessons Learned System Model #1



Lessons Learned System Model #2



Lessons Learned System Model #3

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