BLS Launches New Occupational Outlook Handbook Online Today
The contents of the New Online Occupational Handbook are current, authoritative, useable, and hard to find.
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Plant Manager or Profitability Engineer?
We don’t need to manage our plants, we need to better engineer our profits. The gap between your technology’s capability and its current level of operational attainment is where your hidden profits will be found.
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2010 Workplace Injuries And Illnesses Data Released By BLS
Incidence rates for injuries and illnesses combined among private industry establishments declined significantly in 2010 for total recordable cases of job transfer and restriction: and for cases of days away from work, job transfer or restriction together remained unchanged from 2009.
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Glad We Are Not On This Chart
Manufacturing didn’t make the chart or discussion for Workplace fatal Injuries in 2009. That is a good thing.
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Productivity Increases As Manufacturers Reduce Costs
The 5.3 percent gain in manufacturing productivity for 2 quarter 2009 is reported to be the largest quarterly gain in this indicator since the first quarter of 2005.
PMPA’s Length of First Shift declined 7.9% by the end of the second quarter compared to the BLS’s “hours worked decreased 14.4 percent ” figure for manufacturing in the second quarter.