The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labelled and packaged. Today, the FSIS employs approximately 7600 inspectors, working in over 6500 plants nationwide.
FSIS approached George Mason University for help developing a program to collect work measurement data in support of staffing plans. The goal of the FSIS is the development of a work measurement program with results robust enough for release to FSIS stakeholders such as Congress and the labor union, to justify staffing levels.
As a precursor to a possible larger-scale effort to collect FSIS work measurement data, FSIS tasked George Mason University (GMU) Master's Degree students to plan and implement a case study to demonstrate a process for:
Total Time = 1.8 * Direct Time
The tasks related to the MT60 sampling program will be used as a case study to assess this indirect multiplier and to provide an extensible and defensible methodology for the measurement of direct and indirect inspection tasks.