Often people participating in the TapRooT® Summit THINK they know what will be their favorite session, but are surprised when one of the sessions they attend BLOWS THEIR SOCKS OFF.
For example, all of the Keynote Speakers (CLICK HERE to review them) have the potential to be the best talk at the Summit.
But there are some Best Practice Session presenters who also have the potential to be your favorite session. Here are just a few of the ones that I’m looking forward to …
Lori Reineke-Avant and Eric Cropp
They will discuss their personal experience being prosecuted for an accident.
Linda Unger and Michele Lindsay
One of the most highly praised sessions at past Summits has been the “TapRooT® Users Share Root Cause Best Practices” session facilitated by Linda and Michele.
Richard Mesker
Richard gives interesting, interactive talks. What I’ve heard about his “Risk Management and Safety: Safety Third” session leads me to believe it will surprise you.
I always like Bill’s talks about fatigue and he has two at the Summit that you should consider attending. The first is about a new federal requirement for airlines – developing a fatigue risk management plan. These plans really should be implemented everywhere that fatigue could be an issue.
Second, is “Using FACT to Measure & Analyze Fatigue (Both Reactive and Proactive)”. If you’ve ever wondered how you can prove that fatigue was an issue in an accident, Bill has the answer and will share it at the Summit.
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Well, I said I’d share a few … so I better stop now. And I haven’t even mentioned the talks I’ll be presenting!
Make sure you attend the Summit so that you can learn all the valuable information that will help you take performance at your facility to the next level.
I am really excited to announce that we have made a few changes to beef up our Risk Management topics for the Safety, Process Safety, and Risk Management track for the summit.
On Thursday, March 1 from 10:50-noon, we have the following presentation:
How do you assess the your organisation’s risk management maturity? It is no longer sufficient to implement a Risk Management Framework and hope for the best. Organisations need to assess whether their current level of risk management is appropriate. The Risk Maturity Model provides organisations with a valuable measure of the ongoing development of their ability to manage Risk.
Using the new Risk Management Standard ANSI Z690.2 : 2011 to Assess the Maturity of your Risk Management System – Jim Whiting
How mature is your organisation’s RMS ? This session discusses how to obtain assurance of the maturity, quality, adequacy of your RMS measured against conformity with the new ANSI Z690.2 Standard for RM Systems. This Standard provides specific audit criteria and guidelines for the principles, framework, and process required of a ‘Best Practice’ organisation. An audit process using ANSI Z690.2 criteria can be performed on both an Internal / First Party and even a External / Third Party basis. Either way the resulting benefits center on being able to demonstrate internally and/or externally that your organisation is managing risks in an adequate way. Hence the audit results can provide confidence and assurance to your own people as well as external stakeholders. The workshop will discuss how the evidence-seeking questions/ activities in such an audit can be constructed, delivered and their results analysed and reported.
Jim Whiting
This change also allows for us to create a session, also on March 1, from 9:10-10:30 entitled Risk Management and Safety: Safety Third?
In this session, we have Richard Mesker speaking. Rich was one of the most highly rated speakers at our last summit, so you will not want to miss this. Here is what he will be talking about:
When anticipating risk, performing risk analysis, and allocating resources is safety first or is it actually third/fourth/fifth in the priority list? If so, why? We have all heard the mantra of “Safety First.” Let’s find out if in fact safety is first.
Karen Migliaccio has done a tremendous job setting up this first TapRooT® Summit Quality Track. From cross industry representatives to demonstrating field successes all the way up to company process changes, you will find this Summit Week Track interesting and applicable.
Wednesday
TapRooT®; Implementation Success Stories:
Successful Implementation of TapRooT® at Steris (Kevin McManus)
High Quality TapRooT® Implementation (Dennis Osmer)
Using the Baldrige Criteria to Achieve Performance Improvement (Kevin McManus)
Root Cause Analysis of Quality Problems:
Challenges in Biotech Quality Root Cause Analysis (Michael Gorman)
Root Cause Analysis of Incidents Occurring in the Pharmaceutical
Industry (Debbie Riley)
Thursday
CAPA in Quality: The Strong and the Weak (Karen Migliaccio)
Quality Issues:
Quality Initiatives That Lead To Continuous Improvement Efforts (Bryan
Ward)
Using a Quality Plan to Drive Improvement (Zena Kaufman)
The 7 Secrets of Incident Investigation & Root Cause Analysis (Mark Paradies)
Designing Your Continuous Improvement Program (Kevin McManus)
Friday
How Pfizer Achieves Operational Excellence (Gerry Migliaccio)
What is it that produces a safe environment with safe workers? Is it people with the right attitude… is it a reduced risk environment… or is it both? Do we need reward or punishment… or both? How do different cultures interact successfully to work safely? What is the best environment for a person to work in physically? How does one know?
Listening to a radio show recently about people trying to get out of debt, the host said this, “it is not the math that got them in the situation it is the behavior; that is why changing the behavior is the first step.” It was in reference to people who wanted to know why the had to pay off small debts first and not the large credit cards with high interest.
Point being, that the more one practices a behavior, the higher the probability that the behavior becomes habit. Providing a better environment with the right tools increases the ability to perform the behavior. It is with this in mind that the sessions below were put together:
Wednesday
Proactive Prevention of Injuries and Accidents Due to Human Error
Ergonomic and Human Performance Improvement
Working Across Languages and Cultures
Thursday
Changing Behavior By Praising the 49 Character Traits
Criminal Prosecution of Accidents
Using Training Simulation to Improve Human Performance
Design for Reliable Performance
Friday
Using FACT to Measure & Analyze Fatigue (Both Reactive & Proactive)
Planning Your Improvements
The course and the Human Performance and Behavior Change Best Practice Track make a great one-two punch for improving human performance. Plus, you will save $200 off the course fee when you attend both.
Don’t miss the remarkable knowledge available in the course and the Summit. Register today!
The TapRooT® Pre-Summit is the one time a year we hold our 2-Day Software course for public registration. Be sure not to miss out on this opportunity!
Whether you are responsible for administering the TapRooT® Enterprise Software, or are the ‘Go-To’ TapRooT® guru at your company, you will get all the information you need to know on the latest version of the software, and find out about upcoming releases.
Day 1 of the course is spent running through the entire 7-Step Process flow in the latest version of the software, giving you all the best practices for recording your investigation data.
Day 2 we delve into the configurability and administrative set up of the software, teaching you to how to maximize your potential for trending, reporting and maintaining data integrity for you and your company.
Dan Verlinde
Matthew Irving
The Pre-Summit course will be taught by Dan Verlinde, Director of Information Technology and Software Development for System Improvements, and Matt Irving, Software Development Project Manager for Improvement Interactive. Sign up for the 2-day Pre-Summit course today! (Learn more!)
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Summit
The TapRooT® Software Track for the summit will run Wednesday through Friday and address a variety of topics including:
Using the TapRooT® Software to Perform an Investigation (Instructor: Dan Verlinde): We’ll highlight the most common use of the software, performing an investigation, using the brand new 5.1.5 release with new interface functions.
A User Experience – Web Implementation of the TapRooT® Software (Instructor: Susan Lewis, Wilbros): This session will cover one Super-Users experience implementing the TapRooT® V5 Software and how they met their business’s needs, including:
System Configuration
o User Groups
o System Lists
o Custom Fields
Reporting
Problems and Obstacles encountered
What’s New In The TapRooT® Software? (Instructor: Dan Verlinde, System Improvements): This session will cover new developments in the TapRooT® V5 Software since the last TapRooT® Summit. Dan Verlinde will perform a demonstration of all the new features, and make important announcements about future releases of the software.
Bridging the Software Knowledge Gap (Instructor: Dan Verlinde, System Improvements): This session will cover a range of topics Enterprise clients will need to address for successful TapRooT® V5 Software implementation, including:
Software Installation
Implementation Strategy
System Configuration & Administrative Tools
Data Migration
Learn how successful analysis of your business need can make implementation of the TapRooT® painless for your users.
How You Can Help Shape Future TapRooT® Software (Instructor: Matt Irving, Project Manager, Improvement Interactive): Matt Irving tells us, “We are constantly at work behind the scenes to improve the software that so many depend on every day. The feedback that we receive from our users and instructors plays an important role into what goes into future releases.
Additionally, we are constantly staying apprised of the changes in technology that can enhance the user experience. This session will be a unique look into how all these factors come into play when deciding how and what goes into the TapRooT® Software.
Chris Vallee
Trending Using The TapRooT® Software (Instructor: Chris Vallee, System Improvements): This session will cover how to use your data for trending purposes in the TapRooT® V5 Software, including:
Corrective Action Status Reports
Root Cause Reports
Search Function
Defining Trending going forward
Should be another great Summit this year in Las Vegas. Look forward to seeing you there! (Register for the Summit.)
A new 30-minute talk has been added to the Safety, Process Safety and Risk Management Track session, “Risk Management & Safety,” (Thursday, March 1 at 10:50 a.m.). Australian risk management expert and TapRooT® Instructor, Jim Whiting, will present “Using the New Risk Management Standard ANSI Z690.2 : 2011 to Assess the Maturity of your Risk Management System.”
How mature is your organization’s RMS? This 30-minute workshop session focuses on one part of the 2-day pre-Summit course, Risk Management Best Practices, i.e. how to obtain assurance of the maturity, quality, adequacy of your RMS measured against conformity with the new ANSI Z690.2 Standard for RM Systems. This Standard provides specific audit criteria and guidelines for the principles, framework, and process required of a ‘Best Practice’ organization. An audit process using ANSI Z690.2 criteria can be performed on both an Internal / First Party and even a External / Third Party basis. Either way the resulting benefits center on being able to demonstrate internally and/or externally that your organization is managing risks in an adequate way. Hence, the audit results can provide confidence and assurance to your own people as well as external stakeholders. The workshop will discuss how the evidence-seeking questions/ activities in such an audit can be constructed, delivered and their results analyzed and reported.
Learn more in our 2-Day Pre-Summit Course (February 27 and 28)
If you would like to dig deeper into this topic, register for the 2-day pre-Summit course, Risk Management Best Practices. Jim Whiting (member of the committee that wrote AS / NZS 4360:1999, that significantly contributed to the ultimate development of the international risk management standard ISO 31000 and now the USA Standard ANSI Z690:2011to) has enhanced the course for 2012.
Jim brings his risk management and root cause analysis experience and best practices from around the world (Australia/New Zealand, North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe) to this course. If you are interested in improving the efficiency of your improvement efforts by getting the most out of your use of risk management and root cause analysis techniques, then attend this course. This will be the only time this year that this course will be offered in the US. View the course outline here.
As the track leader for the Safety, Process Safety, and Risk Management track, I wanted to let you know about some of the sessions we have in store for you. I am very excited about our lineup.
All tracks include the KEYNOTE SESSIONS. You will not want to miss any of those.
For those attending the Safety, Process Safety, and Risk Management track, we have the following best practice sessions:
TapRooT® Implementation, Investigations, and Process Improvements
In this session, Janis Chartier, Mike Ezzell, and Mark Eliopulos will share stories of how they have used TapRooT® in their companies and share some investigation results. Everyone loves to hear about incidents when they are not theirs!
Janis Chartier
What is culture and how do you identify and solve culture problems using TapRooT®
Safety culture is always a hot topic. We all talk about it, but how can we really measure it and improve it? In this session, Brian A. Tink, Brian W. Tink, Richard Mesker, and Clare Solomon will tell you.
Brian A. Tink, Brian W. Tink, and Clare Solomon
What does management need to know about process safety improvement?
Mark Paradies, our President, will share insights on PSM. Mark has been around process safety since the beginning, so you will not want to miss this one.
Mark Paradies
Deepwater Horizon
No event in recent years has garnered so much attention as Deepwater Horizon. Jason Matthews from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcementwill give you insight on the incident.
Trends in the workplace
Bill Wiatrowski from the Bureau of Labor Statistics will share recent injury and illness data across industry
Bill Wiatrowski
Risk Management and Safety
In this session, Richard Mesker will challenge you to see if in fact safety is first, and Jim Whiting will cover use of ANSI Z690.2. Richard always stirs up the crowd, and Jim has been heavily involved in development and use of risk management standards for years.
Richard Mesker and Jim Whiting
Design for reliable performance
Human engineering is always the most difficult issue for those of us without advanced human factors training, but remember, everything we do, from designing processes, writing procedures, and developing training, should be done to make the employee successful in performing the task or the equipment more reliable. In this session, Dr. Joel Haight from the CDC and Marco Flores, one of our instructors from Mexico, will talk about designing for reliable performance.
Marco Flores and Joel Haight
Using TapRooT® to analyze near misses, at risk behaviors, and adverse trends
Most people use TapRooT® to do better investigations, but there are so many other ways TapRooT® can help you improve your business. In this session, Boris Risnic, our instructor in Brazil, will discuss some of these ways.
Boris Risnic
So we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas. If you have not yet signed up for the summit, now is the time!
Dennis Osmer, former Worldwide Head of HSE, will be presenting some thoughts about quality implementation of TapRooT®, a system he has used for over 20 years at the 2012 TapRooT® Summit. Key elements covered will be: use of pilots; internal teaching; site review teams; investigator training; focused approach to broad approach; and continuous improvement.
Dennis is a TapRooT® Instructor with over 40 years of industrial experience – the last seven years of his career as the World Wide Head of Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Emergency Management at CIBA Vision (a business unit of Novartis). There, he was responsible for the HSE activities for all of CVs operations (14 supply chain sites, 37 sales and marketing group companies, 11,000 employees on 3 continents). He has a pragmatic approach to developing and implementing HSE strategy which balances employee safety, environmental protection and business needs. He is a recognized expert with a track record of delivering performance.
His most recent activities were with Pandemic Preparedness, energy efficiency improvements, auditing, due diligence, new site start-up and HSE strategies for world class performance. While with a different business unit, he was the deputy chief of an industrial brigade and part of a community outreach program.
Dennis has an MBA in general management and finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and a BA in mathematics from the same university.
This session will be part of the Quality and Corrective Action Programs track and the Leading Performance Improvement track. If you are planning to sign up for a different track and want to attend this session, you may customize your schedule and add it!
One of the highest rated sessions at the TapRooT® Summit is the “TapRooT® Users Share Root Cause Best Practices” session. Here’s a video of one TapRooT® User sharing an idea …
This idea may or may not apply to your investigations. But just one or two good ideas can “pay for” you Summit attendance by the benefits they create back at work. I had an attendee at the 2010 Summit tell me that one idea he learned was going to save his company over $100,000 in the first year he implemented it.
Does your company need to learn good ideas (best practices) from industry leaders from around the world? Then register for the TapRooT® Summit at:
One of the highest rated sessions at the TapRooT® Summit is the “TapRooT® Users Share Root Cause Best Practices” session. Here’s a video of one TapRooT® User sharing an idea …
This idea may or may not apply to your investigations. But just one or two good ideas can “pay for” you Summit attendance by the benefits they create back at work. I had an attendee at the 2010 Summit tell me that one idea he learned was going to save his company over $100,000 in the first year he implemented it.
Does your company need to learn good ideas (best practices) from industry leaders from around the world? Then register for the TapRooT® Summit at:
We all benefit from safe workplaces. Employees and families have the peace of mind that a worker will return home safely each day, while employers gain greater productivity and avoid costly expenses that can come from workplace accidents.
Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics over the past several decades tracks the number and rate of work-related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. It can help us understand who is getting hurt and what circumstances lead to those injuries.
William Wiatrowski
William Wiatrowski, Associate Commissioner, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, will provide an overview of safety and health trends, and will provide a close-up look at certain populations and events on the Safety, Process Safety and Risk Management track at the 2012 Global TapRooT® Summit. Understanding these data – what data are available and how they can be used — can help to identify where to concentrate workplace safety and health resources in an effort to maintain a safe working environment.
William has headed up the BLS Office of Compensation and Working Conditions since 2005. Prior to that he was Assistant Commissioner for the BLS Occupational Safety and Health Statistics Programs and held a number of staff and supervisory positions in the BLS wage and benefit programs.
The BLS compensation and workplace safety and health programs provide comprehensive information on employee wages and benefits and serve as the nation’s public health surveillance systems for work-related fatal injuries and non-fatal injuries and illnesses.
He has received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and the History of Art from Yale University and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the George Washington University. He is the author of numerous articles on employee benefits, compensation, and occupational safety and health issues and speaks on these topics before a wide variety of audiences.
If you’re interested in trends in the workplace but are planning to register for one of the seven other tracks of learning at the Summit, you can add this best practice session by simply customizing your schedule.
One of the highest rated sessions at the TapRooT® Summit is the “TapRooT® Users Share Root Cause Best Practices” session. Here’s a video of one TapRooT® User sharing an idea …
This idea may or may not apply to your investigations. But just one or two good ideas can “pay for” you Summit attendance by the benefits they create back at work. I had an attendee at the 2010 Summit tell me that one idea he learned was going to save his company over $100,000 in the first year he implemented it.
Does your company need to learn good ideas (best practices) from industry leaders from around the world? Then register for the TapRooT® Summit at:
Bryan Ward, President, WTMS, Inc., will be presenting how a quality plan can be used to drive continuous improvement in investigations at the 2012 Global TapRooT® Summit.
Bryan has dedicated the last 20+ years to designing and improving processes and creating cultural change at all organizational levels. He has a passion for continuous improvement.
“Continuous improvement reveals itself in many different forms,” said Bryan. “It can be an up front conscious effort to improve something — anything for that matter. In most cases it is a reactive decision as opposed to a pro-active decision.”
Bryan will show how in the following case, it was neither. It was nurtured through developing a Quality Management System.
Working on an Enterprise Transformation project with a client, Bryan discovered that they had “said” all of the right things to be in compliance for a specific project, but did not have anything behind the curtain, so to speak. No substance. In this case there was a Quality Manual, but no Quality Management System. If a client had asked them to produce performance metrics to prove stability in the system … it could not be done. It would simply have been stated as such, “ … we stand behind our work 100% … no questions asked.” That is a confident statement, but there was nothing available to measure and track true service performance.
After reading through this Quality Manual, Bryan developed a system that measured the company’s core competencies. But, having served as a change agent for many years, he knew that if there was no ownership at the field level this was simply going to be a system that if not pushed, would not be used.
The system began with training on the system, the measurement requirements, self verification / self audit process and forum for review.
After implementation, the Quality Management System revealed several area’s where the business could improve. Not from a quality standpoint, technically they were very sound, but in the Enterprise it revealed area’s to improve. After reviewing the data for several months the following Continuous Improvement initiatives were under taken:
Reduce consumable costs by implementing a consolidated tool kitting process
* Vendor Managed Inventory
* Standardized Consumables & Tools By Field Service Craft
* Create a pull system for tools and consumables; eliminate the PUSH system
Preventative Maintenance Program
* Tools ( Hand and Pneumatic )
* Tool / Work Trailers
* Electrical / Rigging Equipment
Review audit results weekly at the General Manager Meeting
* Gross Profit was improved by 11% through this initiative
* Self Verification audits revealed the real issues being felt at the field service level ( Voice of the Customer ) * TRIR / EMR rates were reduced with the focus of weekly review of equipment and processes. Less hand and eye injuries.
* General Manager “Top 5” List started with this review ; this is rolling list of improvement actions sponsored by the General Manager ( On Going Improvement Items )
Register for the “Quality Issues” session and learn how this quality plan was used to drive continuous improvement efforts. You can add it to your schedule as a custom course, or register for the Quality and Corrective Actions track (this session is part of the Quality program).
Learn more about Bryan Ward and the February 29 – March 2, 2012 Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada on the Summit website.
One of the highest rated sessions at the TapRooT® Summit is the “TapRooT® Users Share Root Cause Best Practices” session. Here’s a video of one TapRooT® User sharing an idea …
This idea may or may not apply to your investigations. But just one or two good ideas can “pay for” you Summit attendance by the benefits they create back at work. I had an attendee at the 2010 Summit tell me that one idea he learned was going to save his company over $100,000 in the first year he implemented it.
Does your company need to learn good ideas (best practices) from industry leaders from around the world? Then register for the TapRooT® Summit at:
TapRooT® software allows electronic reporting of incidents and provides categorization necessary to track them. It helps investigators organize their thoughts and present information they collect. The software helps facilitate the root cause analysis of reactive and proactive investigations, and provides advanced equipment troubleshooting tools to understand equipment failures. The software provides an electronic review and approval feature for management, maintains a database of incident information, and provides tracking, validation and verification of corrective actions. It also provides categorization and trending capabilities to allow the use of advanced trending techniques.
TapRooT® software users around the world are planning to register for the TapRooT® Software Super Users/Administrators track the 2012 Global TapRooT® Summit to learn best practices in using this software and learn all of the latest developments. Here are a few sessions planned for 2012 to help you get the most from your TapRooT® software:
Chris Vallee
Chris Vallee will be presenting “Trending Using the TapRooT® Software.” This session will cover how to use your data for trending purposes in the TapRooT® V5 Software, including:
• Corrective Action Status Reports
• Root Cause Reports
• Search Function
• Defining Trending Going Forward
Chris Vallee is a TapRooT® Instructor and Senior Associate at System Improvements.
Dan Verlinde
Dan Verlinda will be presenting, “Bridging the Software Knowledge Gap.” Dan is the Director of Information Technology & Software Development at System Improvements.
This session will cover a range of topics Enterprise clients will need to address for successful TapRooT® V5 Software implementation, including:
• Software Installation
• Implementation Strategy
• System Configuration & Administrative Tools
• Data Migration
Dan will also be presenting “What’s New in the TapRooT® Software.” This session will cover new developments in the TapRooT® Software since the last TapRooT® Summit. Even if you are not a software administrator, many Summit attendees who use TapRooT® add this best practice session as a custom course to their track to stay up-to-date and polish their super-user skills.
One of the highest rated sessions at the TapRooT® Summit is the “TapRooT® Users Share Root Cause Best Practices” session. Here’s a video of one TapRooT® User sharing an idea …
This idea may or may not apply to your investigations. But just one or two good ideas can “pay for” you Summit attendance by the benefits they create back at work. I had an attendee at the 2010 Summit tell me that one idea he learned was going to save his company over $100,000 in the first year he implemented it.
Does your company need to learn good ideas (best practices) from industry leaders from around the world? Then register for the TapRooT® Summit at:
Aguilar Sáez René Alejandro will be a keynote speaker at the Global TapRooT® Summit, Las Vegas Nevada, February 29 to March 2, 2012.
In early August 2010, Chile’s San José copper and gold mine collapsed, trapping 33 miners 2,300 feet underground.
At that time, René was the Safety and Health Manager at El Teniente Mine at Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer. When he arrived at the San José Mine with civil engineer, André Sougarret, he became the second in charge of the rescue operation.
René was the coordination liaison between those present at the site, including the technical rescue teams and authorities from the Ministries of Mining, Interior, Health; the Chilean Safety Association; and the Army. During the rescue operation, René and André held daily contact with the trapped miners and their families.
In the final stage of the San Lorenzo Operation, he was responsible for leading the teams in charge of the final rescue; working with Codelco and Asmar engineers in the design and fabrication of the rescue capsules; selection and training of rescuers; and hoisting equipment and communications systems.
Today, René Aguilar is Corporate Manager of Safety and Occupational Health at Codelco.
There is now a global body of scientific evidence that shiftwork in the 24/7 workplace is a high risk occupational safety exposure, and that the development of Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) has emerged as the internationally accepted standard for managing the inherent costs, risks and liabilities of shiftwork.
“Using FACT to Meaure & Analyze Fatigue” will be presented by Bill Sirois at the 2012 Global TapRooT® Summit, and will review the new ANSI standard for FRMS in refining and petrochemical industries, as well how the other industries as diverse as Aviation, Railroads, Mining and Utilities are implementing Corporate FRMS systems as a continuous improvement process. It will also provide examples of fatigue management tools that can provide the analytics needed to ensure the success of programs for optimizing shiftworker health, safety and quality of life.
Bill Sirois
Bill Sirois is Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Circadian Technologies, a leading research, information and consulting firm specializing in reducing the costs, risks and liabilities of shiftwork and extended hours operations. Bill has a chemical engineering and ergonomics background, with more than three decades of operational management and consulting experience in the areas of health, safety, and productivity.
This session is part of the “Human Performance & Behavior Change” Summit track, but no matter what track you choose you can easily add this session to your schedule (learn how).
Join us at the 2012 Summit, Las Vegas, February 29 – March 2, 2011.
One of the highest rated sessions at the TapRooT® Summit is the “TapRooT® Users Share Root Cause Best Practices” session. Here’s a video of one TapRooT® User sharing an idea …
This idea may or may not apply to your investigations. But just one or two good ideas can “pay for” you Summit attendance by the benefits they create back at work. I had an attendee at the 2010 Summit tell me that one idea he learned was going to save his company over $100,000 in the first year he implemented it.
Does your company need to learn good ideas (best practices) from industry leaders from around the world? Then register for the TapRooT® Summit at:
TapRooT® is a powerful tool for analyzing near misses, at risk behaviors, and troublesome trends. It is not difficult to analyze these things; the challenge lies in ensuring you have the right data to analyze and working within your resources. Come to the 2012 Global TapRooT® Summit and learn how to develop your near miss reporting and at-risk observations. Also learn how to categorize the data, and how and when to act using trending techniques and TapRooT®.
Boris Risnic
Boris Risnic will be leading this informative session. Boris teaches TapRooT® in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. He has conducted multi-national TapRooT® deployment for companies in Central and South America and has conducted over 50 TapRooT® investigations worldwide. Boris has a BS in Industrial Engineering – Electronics.
This session will be part of the “Safety, Process Safety, & Risk Management” track, but you can customize your schedule and add it no matter which track you choose! Learn more about the 2012 Global TapRooT® Summit by visiting the Summit website: http://www.taproot.com/summit.php
One of the highest rated sessions at the TapRooT® Summit is the “TapRooT® Users Share Root Cause Best Practices” session. Here’s a video of one TapRooT® User sharing an idea …
This idea may or may not apply to your investigations. But just one or two good ideas can “pay for” your Summit attendance by the benefits they create back at work. I had an attendee at the 2010 Summit tell me that one idea he learned was going to save his company over $100,000 in the first year he implemented it.
Does your company need to learn good ideas (best practices) from industry leaders from around the world? Then register for the TapRooT® Summit at:
Join us at the 2012 Global TapRooT® Summit and learn how to identify and fix potential fatality risks in the best practice session, “Proactive Prevention of Injuries & Accidents Due to Human Error.” Ron Pryor will discuss proactive approaches for identifying and eliminating or remediating potential fatality risks related to human error. Time will be alloted for questions. This session is part of the “Human Performance & Behavior Change” track, but no matter what track you choose you can easily add this session to your schedule (learn how).
Ron Pryor
Ron is the owner of Pryor Experience LLC, a safety and performance improvement consulting business helping clients around the world achieve breakthrough improvements in safety and health, quality, productivity, reliability, and profitability. Ron previously worked as a Senior Staff Safety Engineer and Human Performance Coordinator at Alcoa’s Davenport Works aluminum rolling mill in Bettendorf, Iowa. Ron’s 30 year Alcoa career included assignments in Operating Line Management, Production Planning and Supply Chain, and 20 years in Health and Safety. In addition to working with the full spectrum of traditional industrial safety programs and initiatives, Ron led the integration of human performance concepts, including root cause analysis, across all organizational functions. Ron is a Certified Safety Professional, a Certified TapRoot Instructor, and a member of ASSE. Ron attended Wittenberg University (BA Business Adminstration) and West Virginia University (MS Safety Management). After spending a significant portion of the past 25 years coaching and officiating youth soccer, volleyball, and basketball, Ron is enjoying bicycling and boating in his spare time.
Create your custom schedule for the 2012 Global TapRooT® Summit, February 29 – March 2, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
