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Maximize Your Human
Assets.
The performance of your workforce can have a
significant impact on your overall
operation, maintenance, process
equipment—and ultimately your bottom line.
To achieve maximum process performance you
must start with improving and retaining the
performance of your workforce.
HVM’s Performance Solutions program can
provide a cost-effective way to ensure your
workforce is capable of performing at the
highest level of efficiency and safety
possible in order to eliminate workplace
injuries and accidents, ensure compliance
with regulatory requirements, and optimize
processes and equipment. The end result is a
safer environment, retention of top
performing employees, and a reduction in
overall costs.
HVM’s Performance Solutions services
include the following assessments:
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Skill & Training Needs
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Personnel Safety
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Policy & Procedures
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Regulatory Compliance
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New Equipment Training
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Maintenance Practices
Skill &
Training Needs Assessment
Objective, hands-on performance measurements
ensure that employees can perform the
required tasks proficiently. HVM has
extensive experience designing objective
criteria, practical scenarios, demonstration
equipment, and procedures to measure
practical abilities. The skill assessment
will help determine areas of knowledge,
training, and ability that are deficient or
that can be improved to achieve greater
performance.
Task
Analysis
HVM’s skill and training needs
assessment begins with a formal task
analysis to determine the skills required to
perform each assigned work task. The
analysis reviews the operational
environment, processes, practices,
acceptable performance standards, industry
standards, and benchmarks for the industry.
It includes out of the box thinking, i.e.,
could there be a faster, better or cheaper
procedure? Interviews with management and
workers are also conducted, along with a
survey to measure how the workers and
managers view the importance of the skill or
task along with the knowledge used to
perform it. This process is critical to
determine what knowledge is necessary to
produce maximum efficiency of tasks, both
safely and effectively.
Gap Analysis
The skill assessment results are carefully
reviewed and compared to the task analysis
to provide a detailed picture of possible
improvements and how resources should be
directed. This information will be used to
guide targeted efforts for training, skill
development, and procedure changes where
they are needed most. The gap analysis also
ensures the best return on the time and
money invested in the plan.
Personnel
Safety
Personnel safety is the application of
policy and procedures combined with the
right attitude, knowledge, and tools that
will help you manage risk. Complacency is
the enemy of the best safety program.
Without a constant challenge to the daily
routine and beliefs, combinations of events
will eventually allow an accident. A
thorough review is undertaken that includes
employee qualification, work planning and
briefing, audits and inspections, and the
utilization of personal protection devices.
Policies and
Procedures
Policies and procedures dictate the
operating environment on a daily basis. Some
procedures are clearly outlined by a
regulating body, some are left to the
corporate body, and some are established at
the plant level. In the absence of clear
guidance, often times the procedure or
policy is assumed.
Potentially dangerous situations can occur
when new employees are trained by employees
who were trained by other employees. What
was once understood as policy can easily be
changed and manipulated at each “stop” in
the dissemination chain. After a period of
time, the origin and intent of the policy is
lost.
A careful review of existing policies and
procedures can discover weaknesses in
currently utilized process. Areas discovered
center around isolation procedures, use of
intended procedure, specific steps taken
during shutdown and testing, placement and
removal of lockout devices, and specific
requirements for various equipment. Analysis
will help locate deficient areas and
determine overall corrective action.
Regulatory
Compliance
OSHA 1910.147 requires that equipment
specific energy isolation procedures be
developed, documented and utilized for the
control of potentially hazardous energy. The
safety program is essential in avoiding
potentially deadly accidents.
Risk analysis identifies and evaluates the
hazards which could cause accidents at your
facility. HVM uses the latest techniques
to identify, categorize, and prioritize the
hazards in a facility. Once complete, we
provide comprehensive mitigation techniques
based on regulatory compliance, recognized
consensus standards, and industry leading
best practices. This process analyzes
currently utilized processes and knowledge
of current codes and regulations and
compares them, assisting in the creation of
an improved overall safety program.
New
Equipment and Training Assessment
Equipment that is not installed correctly or
modified during installation can lead to
increased downtime or catastrophic failure.
Electrical inspectors generally require that
electrical distribution and point-of-use
equipment be listed. If electrical equipment
has been modified, a field inspection is
usually required.
Correctly designed, constructed, and
installed equipment can still present a
hazard to human life and property, if
operated improperly. Examples of improperly
used equipment can range from something as
simple as an extension cord used (like a
rope) for securing a piece of equipment, to
an oversized circuit breaker for the
anticipated load. HVM’s New Equipment
and Training Assessment properly analyzes
workforce knowledge of newly installed
equipment and safety procedures. This
assessment targets deficient knowledge of
the latest equipment and technology and
outlines ways to improve performance and get
workers updated quickly and safely.
Maintenance
Practices Assessment
The best equipment installed in the best
manner can present a hazard to human life
and property if not properly maintained. A
solid foundation of knowledge and proper
maintenance programs can provide a
cost-effective solution to maximizing
maintenance dollars and extending the life
of your equipment.
Employee knowledge of maintenance,
adjustment calibration, and regular program
maintenance methods of the electrical
distribution system knowledge are analyzed
and reported. A focused plan is developed
that outlines proper maintenance practices
for your equipment and steps necessary to
maximize operations.
Features &
Benefits
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Custom training on your equipment,
operations and processes
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Enhanced skills helps improve the
operations, performance and efficiency of
plant assets
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On-site training eliminates employee travel
and living expenses
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