Utilizing Six Sigma to develop standard attributes for a Safety for Facilities Management (SFFM) framework

作者：Wetzel Eric M^*; Thabet Walid Y

来源：Safety Science, 2016, 89: 355-368.

DOI：10.1016/j.ssci.2016.07.010

• Facilities management
• Safety
• Six Sigma
• Framework
• Facility lifecycle

Introduction: Repair and maintenance personnel in the field of facilities management (FM), have a much higher rate of injury and illness than the national average. Research has shown that a major contributing factor to these high incidence rates is the disorganization and fragmentation of relevant safety information, coupled with the often time sensitive nature of FM tasks.
Practical application: In order to improve worker's safety during the FM phase, a BIM-based Safety for Facilities Management (SFFM) framework is being developed to categorize, consolidate, process, and efficiently present job specific, relevant safety information to FM" personnel.
Method: In order to properly develop the SFFM, the safety information that is applicable to FM staff must first be identified, organized, and categorized. This is executed through a number of research methods, structured within the theoretical framework of Six Sigma's Define-Measure-Analyze-Design-Verify (DMADV).
Results: By systematically collecting, analyzing, and categorizing data within the Define Phase of DMADV, an iterative process with validation steps provides a rigorous and a comprehensive evaluation of the data.
Conclusion: This paper describes the data collection and analysis methods, known as the Define Phase, of Six Sigma's Define-Measure-Analyze-Design-Verify (DMADV) methodology, in order to develop safety properties that are utilized within the BIM-based SFFM framework.

• 出版日期2016-11
• 单位美国弗吉尼亚理工大学(Virginia Tech)