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5. DuPont's Role in Capital Projects
Pages 17-22

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... du Pont de Nemours and Company ACCOUNTABILITY In the DuPont organization, the owner/operator has four basic accountabilit~es in the realization of a capital project: (1) select the right projects, (2)
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... You can't build something where people or the environment is going to get hurt. Consider process safety management, responsible care, process hazard analysis, and environmental assessments.
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... Disciplined behavior is required to hold changes to an absolute minimum. Ensuring Competency Renewal You must take steps to ensure competency renewal.
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... The cost trust portion of the curve in Figure 5-3 came from a Construction Industry Institute study, some years back, that actually took a number of projects / Cost FIGURE 5-3 Competency/trust relationships. \ Trust _ __ ~ Trust = f [I ntimanv X Competency]
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... You create greater value where people learn better, learn how to work better together, don't duplicate work, and don't spend all their time trying to catch people doing wrong things, but spend a lot more time trying to catch them doing right things. REFLECTIONS Engineering has got to see business processes holistically, so the engineering organizations that we have in place are able to see the big picture.
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