WCA Education: A Double Dose of Lean Construction with Jim Johnston

December 14 - December 15, 2021

Are you interested in improving efficiency at your company, leading to better performance and a stronger bottom line? If so, you need to implement Lean Construction principles into your day-to-day operations.

Join Lean Construction guru Jim Johnston on December 14 & 15 for two sessions on Lean Construction: Last Planner® System: Why it Works and How to Ensure Success on December 14 and Lean into Safety on December 15. Details and registration links below.

Jim Johnston, P. Eng., is an industrial engineer, a member of the Lean Construction Institute – Canada, and an accredited trainer with the Associated General Contractors of America. With more than 20 years of experience, Jim is a construction, operations and quality specialist focusing on business process analysis and improvement, lean thinking and implementation, strategic planning and business development. He has worked extensively as a management consultant and trainer, leading organizations through lean transformations, quality system implementation/auditing and process optimization projects. Jim has facilitated the implementation of lean construction on many projects and is currently involved in the continued development of the Lean Construction Institute – Canada.

Last Planner® System: Why it Works and How to Ensure Success

Tuesday, December 14, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
CM-Lean holders will earn 7 CE Credits

The Last Planner^® System is a lean production planning system designed to produce predictable workflow and continuous improvement in construction. The system has proven to help teams deliver better projects in less time at a lower cost – but why is implementation so hard?

We will discuss why productivity in construction struggles to improve so we understand the problem that Last Planner® System is designed to solve and take you through a pull planning exercise to drive home the concepts of the Last Planner^® System.  This course will also provide you with strategies to deal with difficult behaviours in planning meetings and show you how to create the culture necessary to support Lean and make it successful in your business and on your project site.

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*New Course* Lean into Safety

Wednesday, December 15, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
CM-Lean holders will earn 4 CE Credits

We know that lean construction seriously improves project schedules, costs and quality but can it also improve the safety of our projects?  This half-day course will explain how we can significantly reduce safety incidents through the application of lean construction tools and techniques. Learn to identify, assess and reduce safety risks with 5S organization, waste analysis, the Last Planner System®, Kaizen events and workflow design. Take your safety program to the next level with lean.

• Introduction to waste & safety focused lean tools
• Incorporating health & safety into the Last Planner System®
• 6S = 5S + safety
• Workflow design – Safety considerations for smooth workflow
• Kaizen – Continuous improvement creates safer projects
• Focus – How to properly assess and address potential safety issues

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