{"id":6171,"date":"2020-11-03T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T15:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2020-11-03T23:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T15:48:10","slug":"continual-v-s-continuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/occupational-health-and-safety-osh\/continual-v-s-continuous\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Continual&#8221; v.s &#8220;Continuous&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter we are talking about the SMS program, quality management programs or the SMS in OSH. It is quite confusing about the usage of &#8220;Continual&#8221; v.s &#8220;Continuous&#8221;. Some people might even reckon that these two words are interchangeable.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are two distinguish meaning behind!<\/p>\n<p>With reference to a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bywater.co.uk\/faqs\/what-is-the-difference-between-continuous-and-continual-improvement\/#:~:text=Continual%20improvement%20means%20that%20the,has%20pauses%20in%20between%20repetitions.&amp;text=Whereas%20a%20continuous%20improvement%20approach,a%20sustained%20process%20of%20development.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> website:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Continu<strong>al<\/strong> improvement means that the approach is repeated and<strong> has pauses<\/strong> in between repetitions.<\/p>\n<p>Continuo<strong>us<\/strong> improvement approach does <strong>not stop<\/strong>, it is an uninterrupted flow. A continuous approach is one that will constantly look to make improvements, it is a sustained process of development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From an account of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/difference-between-continuous-improvement-continual-dennis-j-morgan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> linkedin user<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Continu<strong>al<\/strong> takes into account processes like <strong>PDCA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continuo<strong>us<\/strong> takes into account successes like <strong>5S<\/strong> and Kaizen and Lean<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finally, my master said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Continu<strong>al<\/strong> improvement : for SMS<\/p>\n<p>Continuo<strong>us<\/strong> improvement : for Safety Policy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is learn something every day brought you by Tommy.K<\/p>\n<p>XDDD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter we are talking about the SMS program, quality management programs or the SMS in OSH. It is quite confusing about the usage of &#8220;Continual&#8221; v.s &#8220;Continuous&#8221;. Some people might even reckon that these two words are interchangeable. However, there are two distinguish meaning behind! With reference to a website: Continual improvement means that<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/occupational-health-and-safety-osh\/continual-v-s-continuous\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occupational-health-and-safety-osh","category-quality-management-system-qms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6172,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions\/6172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}