Excellent example of a company focusing on people instead of tools happening at NORMAC.

Employees & staff demonstrated a better understanding of current operational practices than most management I meet. Period.

Employees led the tour instead of management, explaining the lean concept for attendees to understand, and then how they applied it to solve a particular business problem in their area. This included how they shifted focus from just reaching a certain # to how it’s achieved.

What stood out different here was the practice of behaviours by all staff & employees, and how they were sustaining them instead of just showing off the typical before & after application of a tool. In addition to TWI JI they also practice Job Relations, and some of the learnings of how they’ve changed the conversation & work to treat everyone as an individual.

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Tour participants provided feedback & an ‘outsiders perspective’ to further NORMAC’s business.

It was an honour to present the AME award. I hope to visit again and see how they’ve continued to progress their business.

Canada’s energy policy, and its increasingly fact-free discourse, demands a rethink

Some really good points to consider even for those against oil: if you want the highest environmental, regulatory, and human rights standards, who do you support?

Canada – 4th largest oil exporter in the world

• upholding the highest standards for energy development includes our pipeline system, which is the safest in the world. When measured relative to production, pipeline incidents in Canada are about one-tenth that of the United States’.

• We also have an enviable marine safety record: There are about 20,000 tanker movements a year, with 85% taking place on the east coast, and there have been no significant oil-tanker spills.

New oil sands projects are generating GHG emissions that are on par with – or less than – the average barrel refined in the United States.

Where is the moral justification to allow other oil suppliers – with little to no environmental or regulatory oversight, an indifferent commitment to the climate-change fight and, in some cases, a record of human-rights abuses, poor labour standards and troubled governance – to capture markets that we can supply, with our world-class standards and high ethical approach?

full article: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canadas-energy-policy-and-its-increasingly-fact-free-discourse