Winners
- January 2002
Department of Labor and Industries |
Innovation Project Team |
Department of Labor and Industries |
New and Improved Data Backup Team |
Department of General Administration |
Dolliver Building Renovation Project Improvement |
Department of Social and Health Services | Electronic Purchasing Focus Group |
Department of Labor and Industries
Innovation Project Team
Labor and Industries' workplace safety and health rules were poorly organized, difficult to read, and riddled with confusing bureaucratic, legal jargon. This made it difficult for employers to find, understand and comply with their workplace safety and health responsibilities, thus potentially endangering the well being of their employees.
In collaboration with business
and labor, L&I redesigned, reorganized and rewrote the rules to make them
easily accessible and understandable to employers and employees. This was accomplished
without adding any additional employer requirements or removing any worker protection.
The new Safety and Health Core Rules were made available and distributed to
employers in August 2001. This single book of core rules provided about 80%
of small non-manufacturing employers with a complete, easy-to-use set of requirement.
(Additional industry specific rules are currently being re-written.)
Results:
Richard Apple Craig Blackwood Steve Borst Steve Cant Ronald Dillon Stefan Dobratz Michael Farley Grace Giorgio Jeffrey Grimm Arlene Hallom Glenn Harvey George Huffman Gail Hughes Cindy Ireland Melvin James Rowena Johnson Daniel Locke Joseph Luce Alan Lundeen Donna Manders Paul Marsh Lance Mayhew Dan McMurdie Cheryl Moore |
Gil Paganini Michael Radach Nichole Rose Marilou Russell Michael Silverstein Paul Snow Anne Soiza Tracy Spencer Carol Stevenson Connie Stewart Christine Swanson Kim Telasky Myron Thompson E. Susanne Waits Lena Wang James J. West Ed Whitney Michael Wood Martha Work |
Department of Labor and Industries
New and Improved Data Backup Team
Everyday during non-work hours, Labor and Industries backs up and stores computer data to prevent its loss in the event of disaster or other system failure. At times storage space has been exceeded, and the back-ups take longer than the non-work hours in a day. This will result in the back-ups being completed during work hours, causing work slow downs and stoppages, as well as back-up failures for open files.
A goal was set to double the speed of the back-up process, and triple the storage space available for back ups. An innovative "back-end network" was developed to back up and store data via a new connection that is separate and independent of the traditional links used to perform work. It allows ten different servers to share a common storage solution and runs five times faster with three times the previous backup capacity.
Results:
Marv Clarambeau Marjorie Dausener Russ Kalista David Karakas Pasha Naini Robert Reed Bob Santeford Bruce Santy Ron Shively Arlene Smith |
Department of General Administration
Dolliver Building Renovation Project Improvement
The old Olympia Post Office, constructed in 1914 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, sat vacant from 1994 to 1996. Although located near the Capitol Campus and downtown, the federal government couldn't find tenants or a buyer for the building.
In 1998, the federal government transferred ownership of the building to General Administration (GA) at no cost with the caveat that all renovation work maintains the historic integrity and the significance of the structure. GA remodeled and renovated the historic building at minimal costs for use by the Office of the Secretary of State. The Department of Personnel leased the space during the design phase of the remodel. The project team reduced costs by using recycled marble and light fixtures throughout the building. Crews from Correctional Industries did most of the demolition work. In addition, most of the demolition waste from the building was recycled, saving landfill costs and generating additional money for the budget. The building was renamed the James M. Dolliver Building, in honor of the former State Supreme Court chief justice. The historic structure combines the ambiance of its past with the functions of a modern office building.
Results:
Roy Childers Nick Cockrell Ted Cohen Duncan Crump Rhoda Lawrence Dave Lohrengel Bob MacKenzie Kenneth L. Mensching Richard Price Stuart Simpson Mary Thompson Steve Wagner |
Department of Social and Health Services
Electronic Purchasing Focus Group
For years the process of acquiring goods and services started with filling out a multi-part purchase request, routing for approvals, and submitting to purchasing staff. After awarding a purchase request to a vendor, the purchasing staff mailed copies of the request to different parties for filing, which required handling the same paperwork many times. Stacks of purchases had to be entered into a database and processed for delivery before the cutoff. Expenditure information had to be calculated manually.
With input from a cross
department focus group, a new electronic purchasing system was developed in-house
where all purchasing functions, from initiating to ordering, were automated
into a database. The purchase request is now initiated, approved, and submitted
electronically, and the status can be viewed from the database at any time.
Management and audit reports can be generated within minutes.
Results:
Robert Beets Mary Brennan Victoria Burr Bridgitt Butcher Peter Carlson Lorie Christoferson Arlene Crawford Janis Dahlberg Diane Daniels Diane de Leon Gary Downs Wanda Emmick Laura Ettinger Wolf Fletter Joanne Gripp Marcus Harris Gail Hesselholt Kim Hewitt Lynn Graham-Hoey Molly Hughes Charles Hunter Janice Huntley Bonnie Jacques Wendy Jarrett Jim Judge |
Kevin Kernan Kim Kirkland Paul Knapp Larry Kronquist Darwin Kumm Alice Liou Matthew Matlock Lora McKiddy Jay Minton Connie Minton Ken Moses Lien Ngo-Tran Ellie O'Dell Linda O'Sullivan Rena Patch Oscar Pierce Diane Robbins Kelly Robison Judi Rogers Pat Sanborn Teresa Sapp Roger Slack Lindakay Stacy Nancy Wilkinson |