TapRooT® - Root Cause Analysis
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Capability Resources are pleased to announce that they are now a licensed TapRooT® provider of Systems Improvement, Inc’s TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis systems and will run the first TapRooT® Equifactor® course to be conducted in Australia. See TapRooT® Training Calendar for current courses.
- facilitate the investigation of an incident or equipment failure to detirmine the Root Causes and identify appropriate corrective actions
- facilitate an improvement project
Capability Resources now provide TapRooT® Training services to Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
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TapRooT® is used by leading companies around the world to investigate and fix the root causes of major accidents, everyday incidents, minor near-misses, quality issues, human errors, maintenance problems, medical mistakes, sentinel events, productivity issues, manufacturing mistak es, production delays, environmental releases, … - in other words, almost every type of problem you can think of.
Users include:
Mining: Barrack Gold, Rio Tinto
Airlines: Qantas
Petrochemical: Exxon, Santos, Shell
Manufacturing, Chemical & Engineering: SKF, Fluor, Alcoa, Bayer
US & Aust Armed Forces
Various Nuclear Plants
Various Hospitals
The TapRooT® System is based on advanced, proven human performance and equipment reliability technology - theory and models of human performance and equipment performance from experts including Heinz Bloch, Dr. Jens Rasmussen, Mark Paradies, Dr. James Reason, Linda Unger, Dr. Charles Hopkins, Andrew Marquardt, Jerry Lederer, Larry Minnick, Ed Skompski, Smoke Price, Dr. Chris Wickens, James Haddon, and many more. This knowledge was built into the TapRooT® System so that every person investigating problems can take advantage of the knowledge of experts without having to spend years studying human and equipment performance.
Capability Resources offer 3 TapRooT® courses:
Overview
In just two days you will learn the basics of the TapRooT® System for finding the root causes of incidents, accidents, quality problems, near-misses, operational errors, hospital sentinel events, and other types of problems. Once you find the real root causes using this systematic process, learn to develop effective fixes that will keep problems from happening again. Check your corrective action effectiveness using the SMARTER technique.
Who Should Attend? This is a foundation course. Anyone wanting to find and fix the root causes of incidents, accidents, quality problems, near-misses, operational errors, hospital sentinel events, and other types of problems should attend. Employees that may be asked to contribute in an investigation will provide more effective input.
Learn to find and fix problems proactively BEFORE an accident or incident occurs and to analyse the Safeguards that keep problems from happening or from getting worse once a single Safeguard fails.
Also, learn what to include in effective presentations to management when presenting the results of a root cause analysis.
Overview
Find the root causes of equipment and machinery problems at industrial plants including utilities, processing plants, petrochemical plants, manufacturing facilities, or refineries.
Who Should Attend? Equipment failure analysis and reliability professionals, engineers, equipment reliability specialists, maintenance supervisors, mechanics, and others who analyse equipment problems to find and fix their root causes.
In just three days learn the basics of the TapRooT® System for finding the root causes of problems PLUS the Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting Technique for Root Cause Failure Analysis of Equipment Problems. Once you find the real root causes using this systematic process, learn to develop effective fixes that will keep problems from happening again. Check your corrective action effectiveness using the SMARTER technique.
This course focuses is on equipment failure analysis and troubleshooting by combining the use of TapRooT® with Heinz Bloch\'s troubleshooting techniques from his book, Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting.
This course focuses is on equipment failure analysis and troubleshooting by combining the use of TapRooT® with Heinz Bloch\'s troubleshooting techniques from his book, Machinery Failure Analysis and Troubleshooting.
Go to Equifactor® for more information.
Overview
This course is especially valuable for people interested in analysing the causes of human error. You'll learn rules and theories to help you improve human performance, including how to improve procedures, training, communications, human engineering, supervision, and management systems. You'll also learn ways to improve your company's investigation processes and procedures.
Who Should Attend? Environment, Safety, and Health Managers, Quality Managers, Hospital Risk Managers, Quality Assurance Professionals, Equipment Root Cause Experts, Government Regulatory Investigators, Safety Engineers, Coordinators, Professionals, Reliability & Maintenance Engineers, Design Engineers, Facility Managers, Quality Auditors.
Plus you will learn many advanced skills that a Team Leader needs to collect information, analyse root causes, and develop effective fixes that will help your company improve performance. These advanced skills and knowledge includes:
- An advanced 14 step interviewing process
- Advanced human performance analysis and improvement techniques and behavioural change
- An advanced 14 step interviewing process
- Advanced human performance analysis and improvement techniques and behavioural change
- Ways to use the TapRooT® Tools proactively to stop accidents before they happen
- Understanding the Systematic Approach to Training (SAT)
- How to present your root cause analysis to management to get approval for improvement initiatives
- Understanding the Systematic Approach to Training (SAT)
- How to present your root cause analysis to management to get approval for improvement initiatives