Root Cause Analysis Blog

The Commission’s goal was an 80% improvement in fatal US air accidents in 10 years. The goal was presented in 1996. How did the government and industry do? A 65% improvement over the 10 years.

The New York Times story provides some details. See:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/business/01safety.html?ei=5088&en=1d9c2a8e77c31d5b&ex=1348891200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1191254562-S7XAB0ob+jhm+JqZy0rfvA

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Job Description:

Provide oil & gas industry experience in the fields of facilities integrity, inspection, integrity assurance, and certification, including risk based integrity management with extensive exposure to static equipment integrity, facilities and material. Good knowledge of international standards, regulations, computer and root cause analysis techniques. The senior integrity engineer is expected to direct, plan and manage RBI projects, to provide equipment and offshore fitness for service analysis, to develop procedures including welding procedure, specification, non-destructive testing and test plans and documentation, to recommend long and short term inspection business plans and budgets, to participate in implementing integrity targets and KPIs.

For more info see:

http://www.alaswaq.net/bayt_jobs.php?id=12638

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SUMMARY OF POSITION:

Member of the location management team. Directly responsible for the overall management of the Quality Department and oversees activities in the inspection, data collection and reporting of quality issues. Provides direction to the department for continuous improvement of quality and systems in the plant. Indirect responsible for all department employees to ensure quality standards are maintained. Direct responsibility for all department employees to ensure proper safety, orientation, training, development, compensation and working conditions are present. Focus on interdepartmental cooperation or interaction. The Quality Manager is responsible for root cause analysis; enhancing processes, and automatic systems capabilities to ensure continuous improvement in quality within the plant.

For more info see:

http://www.gadball.com/job/details.aspx?jid=9528406

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Think about the TV coverage of the latest disaster. Before the rescue was complete, I would bet the TV anchor interviewed some expert and discussed the most likely cause of the disaster. Before the day was out, the anchor was interviewing a politician who had figured out who was to blame. (The leader of the opposition party!)

Watching this type of TV coverage has convinced me that in our 24 hour news / instant answer society we can’t wait for real answers. We must have instant root cause analysis!

Now for the good news … System Improvements has an instant root cause analysis tool!

Whoa! You can’t use a spinner to analyze serious accidents! True. And you can’t have an expert tell you the cause for an explosion before the fire is out. Also, you can’t solve any problem by instantly placing blame (the common political answer).

However, if you really need instant answers, Spin-A-Cause™ is available at the store on at the TapRooT® web site.

So the next time you watch the news and an expert starts speculating on the cause of an accident (without investigating the accident), just imagine that they have a Spin-A-Cause™ held just out of sight.

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