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Accidents will happen: do hazard-reducing systems help? Warehousing accidents can have huge consequences that reach far beyond the confines of the facility in which they happen. However, how effective are the safety systems that need to prevent these accidents from happening?
07-03-2011
Inschrijving geopend voor Seminar "Opslagmethoden en opslagtechnieken" op 16 november 2011 Op 16 november wordt het tweede seminar van het MHF gehouden. Dit seminar heeft als thema "Opslagmethoden en opslagtechnieken". Dit seminar zal wederom gehouden worden op de Erasmus Universiteit te Rotterdam.
24-12-2010
Simple operational decisions can have a large impact on worker’s performance and well-being Managers may influence the productivity and well-being of their workers with a large array of simple decisions. Setting challenging production goals (even without direct rewards), deciding on the location of products on a warehouse, and inserting strategic rests are all simple solutions that give measurable results in terms of performance and the worker’s well-being. These are some of the findings in José Antonio Larco Martinelli’s PhD thesis entitled Incorporating worker-specific factors in operations management models.
29-11-2010
Nissan wins ‘Safest Warehouse 2010’ Jury President Prof. René de Koster commented that Nissan is the speaking evidence that working healthily and safely is possible in a large and performance-focused dc – a complex environment.
22-11-2010
The logistics of operations management Innovation is high within the field of logistics, says René de Koster, Professor of Logistics and Operations Management, as he outlines here the challenges that lie ahead for researchers and business managers alike.
20-08-2010
 
 
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