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Oil & Gas - Market Research - Frac & FracK
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Ep 48 – Richard Spears [Spears & Associates] FRACK vs Frac

Thanks for tuning into the #QualityMatters Podcast. Let’s start with a fun question here for the Oil & Gas World. Would a future president be able to stop to ‘Frack’ing in the United States? Frac  vs Frack …  what’s the difference?  Well it’s pretty straight forward, Frac is the term used in the Oil Industry […]

AIRIS Wellsite Services Frac Sand
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Ep 47 – FRAC SAND & AIRIS Wellsite Services

This week’s episode is from the DUG Mid Continent HART Energy Conference. We spoke with AIRIS Wellsite Services about Frac Sand, and the OSHA Requirements for it. Kyle was HIGHLY skeptical at first, as we are sure many of our listeners are. However it quickly became clear that there is a often serious hazard at

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Ep 43 – ASQ Houston – Fab and Simplified Lean Six Sigma

Job Shops, Lean Six Sigma, Quality and why these are dirty words, and should not be. Perhaps, the problem is in our daily lives, we have “Certification Projects” instead of solving this problem. Not all problems require a regression analysis. Can we do a four hour Kazan instead of a four day? According to Fab,

Episode 0042 - ASQ Houston Area Quality Conference
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Ep – 42 – ASQ Houston Area Quality Conference

Evidence against that no matter the profession from oil & gas to medical and pharmaceutical Quality Matters.  But be sure you retain those oh so important software skills in order to be effective. Tune in as we interview a couple of amazing speakers from the ASQ ‘American Society for Quality” Houston Area Regional Quality Conference

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Ep 41 – Coffee Pot Process Mapping

This episode was recorded at an ASQ Section 1422 meeting where Kyle Chambers discusses among other things tools Consultants and Auditors can use, and even Quality Managers, to conduct a GAP Assessment using Process Maps.  Kyle explores this through the lens of what he dubs Coffee Pot Process Mapping. How does consultants and auditors get

Four (4) day work week - microsoft japan
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Ep 40 – Four (4) day work week – Microsoft Japan

Four day work week, sounds great at first.  Seems Microsoft Japan has had a lot of success with it so far.  But there are a lot of variables at play here from cultural differences between Japan and the US, what about the impact of increased productive time during the day at work to impacts on

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Ep 38 – Marijuana Legalization and Workplace Safety

Safety experts: Congress should consider workplace safety implications of Marijuana Legalization and Workplace Safety. https://www.ishn.com/articles/111682-safety-experts-congress-should-consider-workplace-safety-implications-of-marijuana-legalization Occupational safety and health experts are urging the U.S. Congress to go slow and consider workplace safety when taking on the legalization of marijuana. Although recreational and medical marijuana are still prohibited under federal law, it is legal in 33

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Ep 36 -The Human Element

Quality is more than processes, protocols, procedures and profit. Its about People. Our #QualityMatters Podcast episode this week dives into one CEO’s solution to the often neglected Human Element. In fact he writes over 9200 Birthday Letters annually alone. A CEO who writes 9,200 employee birthday cards a year explains the value of gratitude Sheldon