Tuesday, August 21, 2007

lets look at some simple mistakes that have consequences

Here is a nice one.  See the yellow tape inside the back box?  That tape used to mark out specifically how we wanted this cement pillar to be laid out.  But as you can see the yellow tape is removed and amazingly enough the com box is also in the wrong place.  Now someone is going to have to fix that.  Why did this happen?  What EHS management doesn't know is that we know why the tape was ignored but for now we will keep that secret to ourselves.  As long as they fix the problem.
This one is more obvious.  As you can see there is a line and a word that indicates where we want the data box to be.  But for some reason that was also ignored.  For some reason the journeyman installed this where we wanted something else to sit.  Again we know it was not the journeyman's fault.  
Here is one that ETC did.  The drawings that were approved seemed to be ignored.  The drawing below was approved but what showed up on site was what is pictured.  The difference is subtle but as my email box today indicates.  It seems to matter a lot since this particular difference involves way to many people.  Lets hope the fix is not much of an issue.
What is sampled here are small problems but when expanded out you can see why we have had to be so consistently involved.  These small things end up adding up and causing mountains to fall.

It is the end of the day and i have put up a lot of blog posts so maybe my attitude has been a little effected since i started writing but tomorrow is our Wednesday meeting and i have a feeling that it may be interesting again.  Though this project seems to working out.  There have been a lot of fires lately that make me concerned about the next six weeks.

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