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2012 Global TapRooT® Summit Participants:

Please leave your comments here about your favorite sessions and the most important thing that you learned that you can apply at work.

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Thanks

Mark

The best part of the General Sessions were what the Keynote Speakers had to say.  But all I have to show you are some pictures. Great if you were there … but otherwise, you missed out. :-(

Wednesday

Ready – Set – Go! and The Name Game …

Rescue of 33 Miners – René Aguiliar

So You Think You Have Problems? – Cristine Cashen

Thursday

Character Driven Success – Beverely Chiodo

Beverly Receiving the “Most Beloved Speaker” Award

What Does Senior Management Want from Incident Investigation & Root Cause Analysis – Gerry Migliaccio (Sr. VP, Pfizer); Vicki Hollub (President and General Manager, Oxy Permian CO2); Susan Sinclair (Executive Director, Sisters of Mercy); Facilitator, Mark Paradies (President, SI)

Friday

Lessons Learned from Apollo 13 – Ken Mattingly

If you were are participant in the TapRooT® Summit and took pictures that you would be willing to share …. Send them to me and I’ll post them here for everyone to see.

Send them to info@taproot.com.

Thanks

Mark

Here’s the pictures … More about the Success Stories later …

Linda Unger and Michele Lindsay ran this session that allows TapRooT® Users time to share (and learn) best practices. Videos from this session will be available soon.

Ed was the MC and Benna assisted. Congratulations to all those who won awards!

We always start the Summit with a special activity … The Name Game.

Here’s some pictures documenting the fun!

If you want to find out more about how “the name game works, plan to attend the 2013 Global TapRooT® Summit in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, on March 18-22.

People told me they had a great time networking at the 2012 Global TapRooT® Summit Reception held Wednesday night at Margaritaville and here are pictures to prove it …

Don’t miss the fun and networking at the 2013 TapRooT® Summit in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to be held on March 18-22, 2013. Save the dates in your planner and budget for the travel now!

First the most important result …

We raised a record $5,500 for the Oasis of Love Women’s Shelter!

Now for the golf results …

First, the individual competitions:

Closest to the Pin on #3 – Mike Devience

Closet to the pin on #7 – Dan Jelinski

Closest to the pin on #15 – Brian Tink

Longest drive on #2 – Scott Robinson

Longest drive on #18 – Brian Dolin

Now for the winning team …

Ed Skpmpski
Raj Malik
Brian Locker
Dave Minchau

They shot a 62 and came in two shots ahead of Dan Verlinde’s team that shot a 64.

It is the fifth time that Brian Locker has been on the winning team.

Here’s the complete results …

62 – Team Captain Ed Skpmpski, Raj Malik, Brian Locker, Dave Minchau

64 – Team Captain Dan Verlinde, Matt Irving, Michael Devience, Dallas Smith

66 – Team Captain Brian W Tink, Gary Bochanesk, Brian A Tink, Dan Jelinski

67 – Team Captain Brian Dolin, Doug Barnette, Greg Allan, Scott Robinson

71 – Team Captain Linda Unger, Nancy Hitchens, Brian Dovey, Jade Washmon, Larry Wehner

71 – Team Captain Ken Scott, Doug Detherow, Michael Podgorny, David Doyle

72 – Team Captain Mark Paradies, Darryl Hauck, Bill Sirois, Mike Rodriguez
(We voted and we had the most fun!)

72 – Team Captain Michele Lindsay, Tom Bartzis, Kevin Dunn, Glen Deveaux

80 – Team Captain Garrett Boyd, Steve Dobbs, Malcolm Gresham, Paul Hughes

Here are some more golf photos …

Michele played without her famous driver (broken in transit).

Benna organized this year’s tournament.

A very fast start – no practice!

Way too much work lining up a putt…

Megan (photographer)

Megan, self portrait

Should have kept my head down!

A chip and a putt!

I don’t think the shot was suppose to go that way…

??????

I found it!

I found it too!

Team Canada

YES!

Wow! What a morning and early afternoon!

The session with Rene Aguliar about the rescue of the Chilian miners. The inside story from someone who lived the experience was outstanding.

I also enjoyed the session about developing and maintaining excellent investigators.

I just came from Susan Lewis’ talk about implementing the web based TapRooT® Software. I didn’t know that our software could do so much.

Now I have to give a talk on what management needs to know about process safety. Wish me luck!

I am writing to you this week from the amazing city of Las Vegas, where the Global TapRooT® Summit starts today.  On Monday and Tuesday, we held a number of pre-summit courses; they were well attended and a good time was had by all.  I would especially like to thank those who attended the course I taught, the Advanced TapRooT® Techniques course.

In the advanced course, we teach the best practices from our 7-Step Process; things we have picked up over the years from teaching, listening to clients, and watching current events.  A big focus of the advanced course, however, is causal factors.  We do a number of case studies where students get to define causal factors, and real-life cases really get people interested.  Teaching the course this week made me think about how interested people are to hear about situations from other industries; after all, people make mistakes for the same reasons (they are human!) and that is the power of TapRooT® – it is transferrable among industries and disciplines.  It does not matter if you are investigating a forklift accident in a warehouse or a quality problem in a hospital, you can still get answers from TapRooT®.  In the advanced course, our case studies range from traffic accidents to drug overdoses to explosions to fatal falls.  If you missed the advanced course this time, please be aware that we can teach the course onsite if you have 10 or more people, just let us know at info@taproot.com.  Click HERE for the agenda.

But back to the topic at hand – have you been in your industry for a long time?  Have you been at the same company or the same department a long time?  Have you always worked in the same discipline?  If so, you are at risk of acquiring tunnel vision and being restricted to the best practices only in your company, industry, or discipline.

I worked in the airline industry for 27 years.  I knew the business.  But the airline industry has high injury rates.  And by the way, my company had the lowest rates in the industry.  Everyone else wanted to benchmark me, but what could I learn from them?  Don’t get me wrong, I am sure I could learn something, but would I not be better off to benchmark a low rate industry rather than an airline?  The answer is obvious.  When my company became involved in VPP (OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program), I started being exposed to best practices from other industries, and was amazed at how much we could learn from others.

Another thing that happened to me at my company was the environmental department was merged with my department, corporate safety.  The environmental folks taught me a lot, and I taught them how to investigate their spills.  I also included them in my OSHA 10 hour classes.  It benefited everybody.

I could give many more examples, but you get the point.  Make a goal to look “outside your box” and benchmark another industry or discipline.  Go to a conference for a different industry or discipline.  You will be amazed at what you might learn.

By the way, one of the best places to meet people from other industries and disciplines is our summit, but you have missed this one.  But don’t worry, another one is just around the corner; stay tuned for details about the 2013 summit; they will be out soon!

With almost 300 people (some pictured above) at the pre-Summit Courses (many staying for the Summit) we’ve already had a great start to “Summit Week”.

I’m really looking forward to learing from Ken Mattingly (astronaut).

See you at the Summit in the morning!

Just 48 hours until the start of the 2012 Global TapRooT® Summit.

Here’s the welcome talk in a PDF format …

Packing up.

Ready to go!

Ken and I are the road to Las Vegas … See you there!