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How to avoid a crisis? Be prepared for them.

When things are going well, you often forget to plan for the bad times. But when disaster strikes, you could lose everything in a heartbeat.

Worldwide events can bring your whole business to a standstill, your biggest client can choose your competitor over you, your system suddenly can crash making you lose important data etc. There are endless possibilities of disasters if you really think about it.

That’s why lack of a business contingency plan can be a disaster of its own.

When business is disrupted, it can cost money. Lost revenues plus extra expenses means reduced profits. Insurance does not cover all costs and cannot replace customers that defect to the competition.

We have specific expertise in developing Safety Statements for the Warehouse/manufacturing industry.

To undertake a Warehouse/manufacturing Safety Statement, we normally get a full description of your work activities and hazards which you encounter and develop site specific documentation from there

A Warehouse/manufacturing Safety Statement and Risk Assessment should identify all appropriate hazards such as machinery on site, number of staff, number of lorries entering/exiting each day, hazardous substances, tools and equipment, working at height and manual handling  as just some relevant examples.

We undertake Warehouse/manufacturing Safety Statements in Dublin and throughout Ireland via our nationwide service.

Excessive workplace noise can be an issue not only for you and your staff but also for your surrounding community. We can help by carrying out Occupational Noise Monitoring at your premises in order to see if you are meeting standards.

Our noise assessments are carried out as follows:

Review of the premises initially to scan for areas with high levels of noise and identify specific areas of concern;
Take measurements of noise levels in the identified areas;
Calculate the noise levels and assess the need for PPE to reduce occupational noise; and
Present an Occupational Noise Survey Report outlining the findings of the noise survey and recommendations to eliminate or reduce the impact of occupational noise in the workplace.

Other noise monitoring services which we can carry out for you include:

Individual Machine assessment
Site noise surveys
Verification of compliance with URS and/or CE requirements
Noise monitoring in ATEX areas
Noise Awareness Training on request

The Six Sigma Green Belt is a specially trained team member within his or her function-specific area of the organisation. This focus allows the Green Belt to work on small, carefully defined Six Sigma projects, which require less than a Black Belt’s full-time commitment. Our Green Belt Training provides participants with strong problem solving skills, with an emphasis on the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control) model.

The Green Belt has two primary tasks: first, to help successfully deploy Six Sigma techniques, and second, to lead small-scale improvement projects within their respective areas. In a support role, Green Belts can do much of the data-gathering analysis in support of a Black Belt project. On the Green Belt course you will learn how to use many of the Six Sigma problem-solving methods and statistical tools to contribute to the success of your organisation.

On this four-day Six Sigma Green Belt course participants will complete a practical business improvement project and their assessment will be based on successful completion of this assignment.

“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a thousand battles without disaster.” Sun Tzu

How much more successful could your company be if you knew what your competitors were doing?

When choosing advisors, clients are not so much interested by your strengths in isolation – but how they compare with competitive offerings. As you consider which clients to pursue and how best to position your firm and expertise, it is crucial that you have a strong grasp of what others will be doing to compete.

If you can identify your areas of relative strength and match them to clear client needs, then you will enjoy much greater returns for your Business Development efforts. It is not a mysterious art of whisper and anecdote – there are some straightforward actions you can take today to build a picture of what your competitors are really up to – both with individual clients and in the market generally.

FITAC realise that sometimes accidents do inevitably happen, but not learning from the accident is the real issue for a lot of companies today.

The basic objective of any investigation is to prevent a recurrence.  In order to do this the first step is to gather information to determine the chain of events leading up to the accident/incident, the root causes of the accident/incident and any contributory factors that affected the scale of the consequences and the remedial actions necessary to prevent a recurrence. We can assist in undertaking any investigation and formulating (and instigating) plans to prevent recurrence.

FITAC has a specialised team tasked with working with customers to produce warehouse designs that meet and exceed the customer’s requirement, providing hands on experience and expertise in lean design, along with a working model and functional layout for your warehouse. By providing our team the plans of your warehouse or storage area, detailed drawings of what is possible to achieve with various options can be supplied.

FITAC have experience in the design of all Warehousing and Production environments from ambient, chill, and frozen to high value goods and value added services.

To find out more please contact FITAC to schedule your free consultation today.

Security is a concern for any organization.

Are you certain you have consistent controls in place?

Do you change access codes every fortnight?

Do your security systems and procedures adequately protect your business?

If you answered ‘No’ or are uncertain about any of these security issues, FITAC can provide the guidance and auditing expertise to relieve you of the burden.

We work with a leading expert in security installation to evaluate and design a system from the customers point of view, ensuring to cover all internal and external operational

aspects of a functioning Warehouse or Production facility, which would otherwise go unseen by security installers.

To find out more please contact FITAC to schedule your free consultation today.