BUILDING TOGETHER August 2019 Creative Products International | Holland, MI
Upcoming Events September 2 | Labor Day - EV Closed! September 9 | EV Youniversity Accounting Summary Training - 9:00 AM September 10 | 4,500 Days Celebration Johnson Park Enclosed Pavilion September 19 | United Way | Day of Caring To be announced... September 19 | Associated Builders & Contractors - Excellence in Construction Awards Don’t forget to check EVinsite for all upcoming events and details!
Safety Tip:
Hot Work Reminder: When hot work is being performed onsite, ensure there is a designated fire watch remaining in the area following work completion for one hour to watch for smoldering fires!
Safety Days Count:
4,487
No Lost Time Injuries As of 8/29/2019
BUILDINGTOGETHER | August 2019
SMART365 BLITZ
RACHEL AUSTIN DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE TRADES - OLT MEMBER The month of September will be a ‘Smart365 Blitz’ for our team at EV. We launched this initiative about a year and a half ago to bring focus to achieving operational excellence. SMART stands for Simple, Meaningful, ARTful improvements that we can all make every day. Not knowing what would come from Smart365, we asked everybody in the company to look for opportunities to improve. Just pick one thing and find a better way to do it. Many of you documented these improvements with videos, which were posted to the company’s YouTube channel to share with one another. These improvements ranged from ways to streamline family lunch preparation, to technology tips and tricks, to saving yourselves the back pain of bending over to pull up carpet tile. All of these improvements were great examples of taking incremental steps toward finding “a better way” and bettering yourself or the company as a whole. As the initiative took shape, we wondered, where does this all fit in? To find the answer, it is important to look at project success. When defining a successful project, is it safe, is it high quality, is it on budget and is it on schedule? The perfect project…pretty simple right? The challenge is that it is often difficult to find a balance between all four categories without diminishing the others. The old project management adage says that when presented with these options you can pick three, but not four. Although that is a lot easier to swallow, we’re not in the “that’s good enough” business at EV. At EV, we don’t settle, and high quality craftsmanship is non-negotiable, hence Strive365 and our Quality Standards Manual. We are also second-to-none with our safety, which is backed and supported by our Alive365
program. And now, Smart365 is the initiative put in place to support, brand and achieve the greatest version we can offer with regard to time and value on a project. These three programs combined offer a platform for project success, in a way that outranks and outsmarts our competition. These programs serve to lead us towards the best versions of both ourselves and the company. So whats next? We want to reignite the spark! Smart365 took off in a way that fostered a mindset of improvements. Some of which made a significant impact, changing the way we manage work, track information and collect data at a level we’ve never achieved in the past. There is no doubt that compared to a year and a half ago, we are operating at a higher level today, which is in part due to the spirit of improvement brought on by Smart365. So let’s give it another boost and see where it takes us! We are encouraging everyone to step out of their “box” and look for ways to make an improvement at work. And for the month of September, everybody who submits a documented improvement will receive a $5 gift card for the EV Company Store. This improvement can be captured by recording a video on your phone, taking a photo and adding a brief explanation or writing a summary of what you did. Submissions can be sent to Smart365@ elzinga-volkers.com or sent to any OLT/FLT member. So let’s spark change and contribute toward our quest of operational excellence. For inspiration, check out our YouTube Channel (EV Smart 365)!
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