Learning Diary and Handbook 人生學習日記與手冊

Monday, June 26, 2006

"万川集海"文集開始


中文越來越普及,使用它來寫作是很好的嘗試。這系列的文章會集合成“万川集海”-取海纳百川取各流派精髓,有容乃大的意思。我也想採取中學爲體,日韓西爲用的中心思想來整合多年的人生經驗。比方說,日本的視覺化經驗,西方的系統化經驗都是非常實用的,如能夠整合,相成倍增的效果可想而知。



如圖,我會使用結合多樣的學習方法來加強學習的效果。人生時間資源有限,應當先搜索瞭解本人的弱點與強點,然後優先化重要的主題/技術經驗獲得來做焦點學習(這是最有效率的)。一來可以衡量進步水準(progress benchmark),二來可以加強技能經驗內在化(reinforce skill internalization)。其實,學習就應該有目的與應用爲前提(學習利益實在化),不然學習等於浪費時間。

近來書閱讀多了,原來自己比較適合視覺化與案例化的學習方法,越來越多的時間在想應用實踐的事情上。閱讀的範圍擴大,想法比較全面(成熟度增值的象徵?)。

Friday, September 09, 2005

Occupational safety and health (OSH)

Occupational safety and health in the office

Objectives
- To understand that safety and health is an important component of the office environment
- To identify factors that can lead to safety and health issues in an office environment
- To understand that building related illnesses contribute to medical absenteeism
- To understand the health effects associated with visual display units (computers) and ways to minimize these ill effects
- To learn simple techniques that will minimize back related injuries at the workplace
- To recognize the health effects of stress at the workplace and to understand the benefits of an employee assistance program


- OSHA 1994, application of the Act – industries in the first schedule
- Duties of the employers – sect 15 general duties of employers, sect 16 duty to formulate safety & health policy
- Duties of the employees – sect 24 general duties of the employees, sect 25 duty not to interfere with or misuse things provided

Office environment and health
- lighting 0 features of good lighting, problems with lighting, illumination levels at the workplace
- temperature and humidity – body’s response to heat, health issues with low / high humidity
- ventilation – building related illnesses, sick building syndrome
- noise at the workplace – impact of noise at work, impact of noise on health

Health in the office
- stress – work stressors, health effects of stress – employee assistance program
- visual display units (computers) – workstation checklist, keyboard and screen placement, health issues with computers, preventions of ill effects

Safety in the office
- office accidents – preventions of accidents, housekeeping and work equipment, office first aid
- chemicals used in the office – routes of absorption, effects on health
- back injuries in the office – common back injuries, prevention of back injuries

Practical applications, case studies, workshop sessions

Especially for
- safety health managers, executives, supervisors
- SHE committee members, safety officers
- Office / HR managers, executives, supervisors

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

7 Quality control tools

Understanding the 7QC tools and know their use, advantage, disadvantage and applications to continual improvement.

1 flow chart
2 checklist
3 pareto chart
4 cause & effect diagram (fishbone diagram)
5 run chart and histogram
6 scatter diagram
7 control chart

Projected Financial Statement

Yesterday read on how to use the projected financial statement, forward looking tool to help in business plannning. It is really useful to help in plan forward how the business will be, compare with actual financial statement is backward looking. This is why financial statement analysis is very helpful skill to be build. It is where people use to snapshot how well the company is perform.

This is the reason why accounting language is called 'language of business'.

Monday, September 05, 2005

Handbook for the lifetime

Handbook for the life time
Thought of utilize the blog to finish off the lifetime handbook. It will be mainly driven by the task to be done, step by step how to guide type of handbook. It will serve as the reference for the working knowledge and skill references.