Keep Up With Changes – Assist New Employees

In any company it is hard to keep everyone up to date with changes and procedures. There is always someone who misses out on them because they were not around when the change was made. Also, if a new employee is hired, someone needs to communicate all the different procedures needed for them to perform their job correctly. So how best to handle this dilemma? Standard Operating Procedures.

It is no easy (or fun) task to write a procedure for every task each employee performs in the course of doing their job, but it is very important. In the long run, the time that will be saved in re-training someone new to the position, not to mention the time lost in inefficiencies when a job is not being performed correctly or mistakes are made, way more than makes up for the time spent in preparing the procedure and checking that it is accurate and understandable.

Make sure that all the tasks at your company are defined and procedures are written. You will be glad you did.

The author, Marge Bonura, is the Director of Sales & Marketing for New England Machinery, Inc. (NEM). NEM is a leading packaging machinery manufacturer of bottle unscramblers, cappers, orienters, retorquers, lidders, pluggers, pump sorter/placers, scoop feeders, hopper elevators and much more. The company has been in business since 1974 selling to the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, personal care, chemical, household products, automotive and other industries. For more information on NEM, visit their website at www.neminc.com.