Extreme Focus Works

Focus areas

Pick your two or three. We go deep.

Focus areas can be departmental, functional, or a combination — and leadership capacity is developed inside every one of them.

Departmental

  • Log yards and log merchandising
  • Sawmill
  • Kilns
  • Planer mill
  • Sales and shipping
  • Safety
  • Maintenance and reliability
  • Human resources — retention and turnover reduction, role definition and skill development, performance management, leader and leadership team development
  • Finance, cost and spending

Functional

Safety

1. Core safety compliance systems

  • Hot work / fire avoidance
  • Lock out / tag out
  • MOPED — mobile equipment and pedestrian interaction
  • Fall protection / fall prevention

Safety

2. Hazard recognition and risk assessment

  • General / organizational hazard recognition systems
  • Employee personal risk assessment

Uptime and rate

3. Uptime / rate improvement systems

  • Short interval loss reduction / elimination
  • Downtime analysis with action plan tracking
  • Performance management systems

Uptime and rate

4. Maintenance and reliability systems

  • Planning and scheduling
  • PM systems — runtime, downtime, operator, lubrication, predictive
  • Maintenance workflow
  • Daily, weekly, monthly maintenance cadence

Leadership capacity + leadership development

Runs through every focus area — so the capability stays in your mill after the improvement is achieved.

Real mill life

The events that keep mill managers up at night.

  • Fire
  • Serious injury
  • Fall
  • Compliance audit variance
  • Major breakdown
  • Process hang-up
  • Recovery and grade yield loss
  • Termination or resignation

Each one traces back to gaps in the systems above. Extreme Focus Works finds the root cause — and closes the gap where it starts.

An “Extreme” example: a fall

Root cause

Gap in personal risk assessment execution.

Contributing causes

  • Gaps in fall protection systems (ladder safety)
  • Gaps in maintenance planning and scheduling

One incident, three focus areas: Hazard Recognition and Risk Assessment, Core Safety Compliance, and Maintenance and Reliability — the kind of linkage a dedicated focus uncovers.

Which two or three would move your mill?

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