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Root Cause Analysis Tip: Process Safety with Mark Paradies – Part 3

Posted: June 12th, 2013 in Root Cause Analysis Tips, Summit, Video

At the 2013 Global TapRooT® Summit, Mark Paradies gave a General Session talk about Process Safety.

Watch the third installment here:

Learn more about our 2014 Global TapRooT® Summit at http://www.taproot.com/summit.

Did you miss the first installment? View it here: : http://www.taproot.com/archives/38433

The second? View that here: http://www.taproot.com/archives/38566

Root Cause Analysis Tip: Process Safety with Mark Paradies – Part 2

Posted: June 5th, 2013 in Root Cause Analysis Tips, Summit, Video

At the 2013 Global TapRooT® Summit, Mark Paradies gave a General Session talk about Process Safety.

Watch the second installment here:

Learn more about our 2014 Global TapRooT® Summit at http://www.taproot.com/summit.

Did you miss the first installment? View it here: : http://www.taproot.com/archives/38433

How Far Away is Death? Train Derailment Explosion – Cell Phone Videos

Posted: June 4th, 2013 in Accidents, Current Events, Video

People just don’t understand the danger at emergency scenes. They see smoke and head for the excitement. The following video shows three perspectives of the same explosion after a train derailment. Turn your audio off if you don’t want to hear the cussing (these videos are unedited).

Let you kids and friends know … Unless they are trained emergency responders they should NOT head for the scene of large fires to get a video. They could be filming their own death.

How Far Away is Death?

Posted: May 28th, 2013 in Video

Dolphins Ride the Bow Wave of SSN 783 – USS Minnesota

Posted: May 28th, 2013 in Video

Ken Reed (Partner here at SI and TapRooT® Instructor) sent me the link for this … it reminded him of his days at sea …

Root Cause Analysis Tip: Serious Injuries & Fatalities with Mark Paradies – Part 5

Posted: May 23rd, 2013 in Root Cause Analysis Tips, Summit, Video

Welcome to our weekly series of Root Cause Analysis Tips from our 2013 Global TapRooT® Summit. This week and the next few weeks following, we’ll be talking about Serious Injuries & Fatalities. At the Summit this year, Mark Paradies gave a great talk about Serious Injuries & Fatalities and how you can prevent them.

This is the second part of the Q & A portion at the end of the session, in which participants discuss SIF situations in their workplace with Mark.

Watch it here:

Interested in attending our 2014 Global TapRooT® Summit?

Visit our Summit page here: http://taproot.com/summit

Watch Part 1 here: http://www.taproot.com/archives/37877
Part 2: http://www.taproot.com/archives/37972
Part 3: http://www.taproot.com/archives/38015
Part 4: http://www.taproot.com/archives/38276

Root Cause Analysis Tip: Process Safety with Mark Paradies – Part 1

Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Root Cause Analysis Tips, Summit, Video

At the 2013 Global TapRooT® Summit, Mark Paradies gave a General Session talk about Process Safety. We’ll have it here for you on the blog for the next few weeks.

Watch the first installment here:

Learn more about our 2014 Global TapRooT® Summit at http://www.taproot.com/summit.

Root Cause Analysis Tip: Serious Injuries & Fatalities with Mark Paradies – Part 4

Posted: May 16th, 2013 in Root Cause Analysis Tips, Summit, Video

Welcome to our weekly series of Root Cause Analysis Tips from our 2013 Global TapRooT® Summit. This week and the next few weeks following, we’ll be talking about Serious Injuries & Fatalities. At the Summit this year, Mark Paradies gave a great talk about Serious Injuries & Fatalities and how you can prevent them.

This is the first part of the Q & A portion at the end of the session, in which participants discuss SIF situations in their workplace with Mark.

Watch it here:

Interested in attending our 2014 Global TapRooT® Summit?

Visit our Summit page here: http://taproot.com/summit

Watch Part 1 here: http://www.taproot.com/archives/37877
Part 2: http://www.taproot.com/archives/37972
Part 3: http://www.taproot.com/archives/38015

Monday Accident & Lessons Learned: Accident at Sea

Posted: May 13th, 2013 in Accidents, Video

What ever happened to all back emergency and right full rudder?

Better to learn in training than to learn by an accident!

Root Cause Analysis Tip: Serious Injuries & Fatalities with Mark Paradies – Part 3

Posted: May 9th, 2013 in Root Cause Analysis Tips, Summit, Video

Welcome to our weekly series of Root Cause Analysis Tips from our 2013 Global TapRooT® Summit. This week and the next few weeks following, we’ll be talking about Serious Injuries & Fatalities. At the Summit this year, Mark Paradies gave a great talk about Serious Injuries & Fatalities and how you can prevent them.

This week, Mark shares his lessons learned, including making sure your investigators really dig in when it comes to root cause analysis. He recommends exploring human factors, fatigue, and using the Corrective Action Helper® to go beyond additional training.

Watch the full 4-minute video now:

If you’d like to look at the process safety talk he mentions at 1:46 in this video, click here for his series from last year’s Summit.

Click here for Admiral Rickover’s testimony to congress about Process Safety.

Interested in attending our 2014 Global TapRooT® Summit?

Visit our Summit page here: http://taproot.com/summit

Watch Part 1 here: http://www.taproot.com/archives/37877
Part 2: http://www.taproot.com/archives/37972

Root Cause Analysis Tip: Serious Injuries & Fatalities with Mark Paradies – Part 2

Posted: May 2nd, 2013 in Best Practice Presentations, Root Cause Analysis Tips, Summit, Video

Welcome to our weekly series of Root Cause Analysis Tips from our 2013 Global TapRooT® Summit. This week and the next few weeks following, we’ll be talking about Serious Injuries & Fatalities. At the Summit this year, Mark Paradies gave a great talk about Serious Injuries & Fatalities and how you can prevent them.

This week, Mark discusses using safeguards analysis proactively. He says, “If you’ve got a single safeguard that’s [based on] human performance, that should be a danger bell going off in your mind.”

Watch the full 7-minute video now:

Interested in attending our 2014 Global TapRooT® Summit?

Visit our Summit page here: http://taproot.com/summit

Watch Part 1 here: http://www.taproot.com/archives/37877

Another Great Day at Sea

Posted: May 1st, 2013 in Video

Ahhh … Reminds me of those great days at sea in the Navy when watertight integrity and secured for sea really meant something.

How Far Away is Death?

Posted: April 30th, 2013 in Video

23 Brushes with Death!

Root Cause Analysis Tip: Serious Injuries & Fatalities with Mark Paradies – Part 1

Posted: April 25th, 2013 in Root Cause Analysis Tips, Summit, Video

Welcome to our weekly series of Root Cause Analysis Tips from our 2013 Global TapRooT® Summit. This week and the next few weeks following, we’ll be talking about Serious Injuries & Fatalities. At the Summit this year, Mark Paradies gave a great talk about Serious Injuries & Fatalities and how you can prevent them.

The first installment is about 6 minutes long and Mark outlines the implications of Behavior Safety Training’s SIF Model and its strengths and weaknesses.

Watch it here:

Interested in attending our 2014 Global TapRooT® Summit?

Visit our Summit page here: http://taproot.com/summit

Friday Joke: SnapCharT®s Come to Life!

Posted: April 19th, 2013 in Jokes, Video

When you’re working on a SnapCharT®, do you ever wish you could take a nap and let it finish itself? That’s just what happened to this film designer and his Post-it-Note creations. Enjoy!

Fertilizer Explosion in West Texas

Posted: April 18th, 2013 in Accidents, Current Events, Investigations, Video

Here a raw video of the explosion as taken by a cell phone …

Here is a video report from The Wall Street Journal …

Here are links to stories about the blast from The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324493704578429943017835664.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323309604578430494141617004.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The US Chemical Safety Board is starting an investigation of the blast.

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