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Safeway Compliance Report

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At the request of Teamsters Local Union 439 an audit of the production standards were performed at the Safeway facility located in Tracy, CA. during the week of March 13, 2017. The purpose of the audit was to determine if the updated engineered standards are fair and reasonable based on sound engineering principles and guidelines. The tasks studied were Perishable Selection and General Merchandise Selection.
The production standards for the area and tasks stated above were evaluated in the study. All workers observed were informed of the purpose of the study and were instructed to follow documented methods and procedures while performing their job tasks.

II. Audit Results

1. Perishable Selection: …show more content…

Delays / Downtime:

On March 8, 2012 Safeway created a “Guidelines for Administration of "Delay" Times which was presented to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Warehouse Division IE staff for review.
Safeway’s delay policy was created in regard to the unreflective system applied 2% congestion allowance. Until Safeway is capable of engineering standards reflective of “True Life” working conditions within their facilities, this policy must be adhered.

This document is to serve as a guideline on how DELAY times are to be administered for on-standard activities within all of our US and Canadian Distribution Centers. While it is intended to be a guideline, it is necessary that we maintain consistency across all of our operations.
"Delay" Code is the activity that falls within the list of Indirect activity codes as PR - Production Delays (See Attachment A).
DELAY will be defined as an activity or condition that inhibits a person from accomplishing a task following a prescribed method. Examples of DELAY are printer down, issues with the Voice system, excessive congestion, fallen cases on the floor, …show more content…

Since the event occurred due to carelessness on the part of the employee this individual would not receive delay time for re¬assembling the pallet. The trailing selector as a result of the incident would be able to request delay providing they assisted the first selector in clearing the aisle.
• An order selector is found to have missed an item on a selection audit and is called up to complete the order. The time it takes to get the missing case would not be approved delay. If however, when arriving to where the assignment is being audited the selector finds that the case was actually on the pallet and it was missed by the auditor, delay time would be provided.
• Use of Downtime Slips to track delay requests: o Attachment B — Downtime Slip n Rules and guidelines covering use of the Downtime Slip method:
• Blank Downtime Slips are placed in a convenient location where employees may easily and quickly retrieve them.
• Employee completes the Downtime Slip by filling in all required information. The "Approved By" line will be left

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