In the past year at Carter’s Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing Company, eight employees experienced minor injuries (cuts) from handling metal parts. One employee lost 15 workdays after getting debris in his eye while grinding, six employees lost two days each due to back strains, and four welders were treated for minor burns. Select one of the injury types, and discuss the possible performance problems. Suggest one or more solutions for each performance problem.

The performance problem to minor burns will be mainly psychological.

Explanation:

The staff involved will most likely exhibit a reduction in speed at which he or she executed the task which led to the burn.

If the personnel is in a chain of production where their own activity feeds others, it may translate to the increase in the time taken to achieve results.

One solution to this is to critically examine the production process and eliminate the cause of the accident if any.

If the cause of the incident was as a result of carelessness on the part of the staff, then he or she might have to be rescheduled to another department or unit where their current mindset will not stall the overall performance of the team/production line.

Cheers!