6.3Best practices & pitfalls
The essentials in 30 seconds
- Golden rule: a healthy system rests on few rules, always applied: shop floor, living DUERP, collective first, dated evidence.
- Do: visit weekly, rate and date, chain Pareto → Ishikawa → PDCA, audit independently, transpose local law.
- Never do: manage from the office, blame people, stack decorative indicators, copy a foreign law as is.
Hakim thread — 1 year on: three habits that pay
One year on, Hakim takes stock: what counted most was not a tool but three habits — the weekly shop-floor walk with operators, the DUERP updated at every change, and 5 whys on the system with 3-month verification. And his biggest narrowly avoided pitfall: managing from stats with no visit during a rush month.
Pick one habit to anchor in your ritual, then move to the next.
The trust contract
A healthy system rests on few rules, always applied. Here they are, with their opposites to ban.
✓ Do
- Weekly shop-floor walk with operators, findings noted and dated.
- Rated DUERP (S×L), prioritised, updated at every change.
- 9 principles in order: avoid, at source, collective, then PPE.
- 5 whys on the system, corrective + 3-month verification.
- Pareto → Ishikawa → PDCA chained, evidence displayed.
- 5-8 indicators (results + means), monthly review that decides.
- Independent audits, 5 clear findings, closed follow-up.
- One merged system (HLS), one review, one register.
- Short rituals (15 min), reports answered within 15 days.
- Frameworks transposed to local law, never copied from France.
✗ Never do
- Office + stats with no visit.
- Generic 2019 DUERP on a shelf.
- Training + PPE as the only answer.
- Blaming people, hiding NCs.
- Isolated tools, never chained.
- 30 decorative indicators never discussed.
- Self-audit, brick-like report with no follow-up.
- 3 parallel binders.
- Annual day then silence.
- French law applied outside France.
Ready-to-say script — check your week before the review (30 s)
"Shop floor done with operators? DUERP up to date? Collective before PPE? 5 whys on the system? Indicators commented? If any no, I fix it before the review."
Copy-paste template — monthly self-diagnosis (10 questions)
THIS MONTH (yes / to improve):
1. Shop floor: weekly walk with operators, dated findings?
2. DUERP: rated (S×L), prioritised, up to date with the last change?
3. Principles: source and collective treated before PPE?
4. NCs: 5 whys on the system + 3-month verification?
5. Tools: Pareto → Ishikawa → PDCA chained and displayed?
6. Indicators: 5-8 tracked and commented in a review that decides?
7. Audits: independent, clear findings, closed follow-up?
8. System: merged (HLS), one review, one register?
9. Rituals: short, reports answered within 15 days?
10. Law: frameworks transposed locally, never copied?
MY PRIORITY NEXT MONTH (only one): ...Small business / tight budget
One habit per quarter is enough: the weekly shop-floor walk first, the rest after.
Algeria SME
Adapt rituals to peaks and short staffing: a quarter-hour held every week beats an annual day.
Remote / hybrid
The #1 discipline at a distance: written findings and dated photos without delay, no untraced oral visit.
Cross-cultural
Verify local transposition (inspectorate, legal counsel) rather than assuming the French framework applies.
48h challenge — apply tomorrow
Fill the monthly self-diagnosis above on your site and pick one priority to anchor in your ritual.
- I know the 10 reflexes to apply and the 10 pitfalls to avoid.
- I filled the self-diagnosis and picked a priority.
- I did the 48h challenge or scheduled its date.
Before the review, Hakim checks his month. Which reflex best protects the system?
Stick the thread-project criteria on the wall: assessed, dated, verified, alive.