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Pictures from the Final Exercise at the 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Course for Dolphin Energy in Abu Dhabi
Saturday, June 19th, 2010
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Final Exercise Picture from the 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Course in Norway
Monday, June 14th, 2010Mhorvan Sherret sent this photo of folks working on their final exercise at the 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Course held by Talisman in Norway.
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Pictures from the São Paulo, Brazil, 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Course that was held in Portuguese
Friday, June 11th, 2010Here’s pictures from São Paulo, Brazil. Boris Risnic, our instructtor from São Paulo, said it was a great class. You can see from the pictures that people were involved with discussion and interviews.
Boris is an experienced TapRooT® User who first learned TapRooT® while he worked at Otis Elevator, a division of United Technology. After he retired from Otis, he came to work as a Contract Instructor for SI and provides training throughout Brazil.
Interested in a TapRooT® Course in Brazil (or anywhere around the world)? Drop us a note (click here) and we will give you a quote.
Quality Manufacturing Article of the Week: The balance between production, product safety, and speed
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
I read this article today in ASQ Quality News Today: “Toyota’s Safety Blitz May Delay Product Plan”.
Read this excerpt and then think about it for a minute: “Some analysts warn that product development will slow as Toyota takes more time to review its quality and safety processes, and diverts resources to those areas.”
Is “warn” the right word of the day. In TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training we teach problem facilitators not to be judgmental when writing down facts…. it is best to keep a root cause analysis objective and nonemotional. Of course most of us are all human so what did you feel or infer when you heard the word “warn”?
My thoughts? Isn’t the rapid pace of new products tied to the current massive recalls? “Warn” sounds like there is worry that new products in the pipeline may now have to be delayed which $$$ people feel may be bad for future return on investment based on expected delivery dates?
Now the good news is the great response to the quote above from project general manager for vehicle safety Seigo Kuzumaki. He stated that shifting resources to safety was the right compromise at the right time. “Toyota needs to move faster to respond to customer needs,” he said.
..any comments?
Picture from the 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Course for Talisman in Norway
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Mhorvan Sherret (one of our instructors from Scotland) sent this picture of Kevin Palardy (one of our instructors from Canada) teaching at a 5-Day TapRooT® Course for Talisman in Norway.
Yes, our courses do have an international flavor.
If you want training anywhere around the world, contact us by clicking here.
CSB News Release: CSB Releases New Hot Work Safety Video Emphasizing Effective Hazard Evaluations and Gas Monitoring Procedures around Storage Tanks
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
CSB Releases New Hot Work Safety Video Emphasizing Effective Hazard Evaluations
and Gas Monitoring Procedures Around Storage Tanks
Washington, DC, June 7, 2010 – The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) today released a 14-minute safety video warning of the hazards of welding and other hot work activities in and around storage tanks containing flammable materials.
Entitled “Dangers of Hot Work,” the video presents key lessons from the CSB’s hot work safety bulletin, released on March 4, 2010, in Wausau, Wisconsin, near the Packaging Corporation of America (PCA) facility where three workers were killed in July 2008 during a hot work-related explosion.
Hot work is defined as burning, welding, or similar spark-producing operations that can ignite fires or explosions. Since the release of the CSB hot work safety bulletin last March, there have been at least an additional eleven hot work accidents resulting in five fatalities and 14 hospitalizations. Included in these events is the explosion and fire at the Navajo Refining Company that killed two workers and injured two others in Artesia, New Mexico, where a crew of insulators was reportedly working on a crude oil storage tank.
The video uses 3-D computer animations to depict three hot work accidents at Partridge-Raleigh, an oil production site in Central Mississippi; the Bethune Waste Water Treatment Plant in Daytona Beach, Florida; and the Motiva Enterprises Refinery in Delaware City, Delaware.
The video also features an interview with John Capanna, who suffered burns over ninety percent of his body following a hot work accident while he performed maintenance activities at a refinery in New Jersey in 1979.
Mr. Capanna warns: “Don’t think that something this tragic couldn’t happen to you or somebody you love. This could happen to anybody.”
Also featured in the video is Casey Jones, the wife of crane operator Clyde Jones, who was fatally burned at the Bethune Waste Water Treatment Plant in January 2006.
Mrs. Jones says, “As a wife, I just assumed that he had a normal, everyday 7:00 to 3:30, Monday through Friday job, safe as my job. I would have never dreamed in a million years he would have been killed in an explosion.”
Hot work accidents occur throughout many industries in the U.S., including food processing, pulp and paper manufacturing, oil production, fuel storage, and waste treatment. CSB Investigations Supervisor Donald Holmstrom states in the video, “We typically hear about hot work accidents weekly. It has become one of the most significant types of incidents the CSB investigates, in terms of deaths, in terms of frequency.”
Emphasizing key lessons from the safety bulletin, Chairman Bresland states, “Hazard assessments and combustible gas detectors should be routinely used to identify and monitor for flammable atmospheres before and during hot work. Effective gas monitoring will save lives.”
The video is available for viewing and downloading on the CSB’s website as well as the agency’s YouTube channel. Free DVD’s can be requested by completing the online request from www.csb.gov.
The CSB investigation of the explosion at Packaging Corporation of America remains ongoing; a final report with formal safety recommendations is expected later this year.
For more information, contact the Director of Public Affairs Dr. Daniel Horowitz, 202-261-7613, cell 202-441-6074; Sandy Gilmour, 202-261-7614, cell 202-251-5496, or Hillary Cohen, 202-267-3601, cell 202-446-8094.
Pictures from the Niagara Falls Public 2-Day TapRooT® Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis Course
Monday, June 7th, 2010Brian Tink, one of our TapRooT® Instructors from Canada, sent these pictures from the recent 2-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
If you are ready to attend some highly interactive, highly rated training to learn tools that will help you perform effective, repeatable root cause analysis that has been proven to stop problems and change performance for the better … see our upcoming courses at:
Final Exercise at the Dublin 2-Day TapRooT® Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis Course
Friday, June 4th, 2010It was a small course but there was great learning. Here’s a couple of pictures from the final presentations.
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Teaching a 2-Day TapRooT® Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis Course in Dublin, Ireland
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010Hello from Dublin, Ireland!
I forgot to get pictures of the class today, so instead, here are some pictures of me goofing off before the course.
We often hold courses in locations that are great for a short vacation. So why not combine great root cause analysis course and some fun! Where? Try these locations in the next six months:
Calgary, Canada – 2-Day – July 13-14
San Francisco (Tiburon), California – 3-Day Equifactor – July 19-21
Gatlinburg, Tennessee – 5-Day – July 26-30
Seattle, Washington – 5-Day – July 26-30
Dallas, Texas – 3-Day Equifactor® – August 11-13
Las Vegas, Nevada – 5-Day – September 27-October 1
San Antonio, Texas – 2-Day – October 25-26
London, England – 5-Day – November 8-12
Singapore – 5-Day – November 15-19
New Orleans, Louisiana – 3-Day Equifactor® – December 1-3
For a complete course schedule see:
Mark’s Talk About the Heinrich Pyramid (Safety Pyramid) at the European Safety Committee of the Conference Board
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010That’s me and the interested participants at the Conference Board…
Below is a copy of a PDF of the PowerPoint that I used.
Picture from an On-Site 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Course for Westex Well Servicing Company
Thursday, May 27th, 2010That’s Richard (the instructor) on the far left.
Need a course at your site? Call us at 865-539-2139. Or click here to e-mail us.
TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course in Bogotá, Colombia
Monday, May 24th, 2010T&PS Certified Training hosted another great 3-Day TapRooT® / Equifactor® course in Bogotá last week. Marco Flores was the instructor, and it looks like a lot of happy students!
Let us know if you are interested in attending a TapRooT® course in Central or South America!
Press Release from the US Chemical Safety Board – Pipe Cleaning Practices that Led to Kleen Energy Explosion Are Common Across Gas Energy Industry, Survey Data Show
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Pipe Cleaning Practices that Led to Kleen Energy Explosion Are Common Across Gas Energy Industry, Survey Data Show
CSB Public Meeting Planned Next Month in
Connecticut to Consider New Safety Recommendations
Washington, DC, May 19, 2010 – The practice of using flammable natural gas to clean power plant piping, which led to the fatal explosion at Connecticut-based Kleen Energy on February 7, has been commonly used across the gas-fired power generating industry, CSB investigators said today.
The explosion, which killed six workers and injured at least 50 others, occurred during a “gas blow” – a planned effort to clean out new fuel-gas piping leading to combustion turbines by directing high-pressure natural gas through the pipes and out of vents located near ground level, adjacent to the power generation building. The gas accumulated above the lower explosive limit and ignited, causing massive damage to the new billion-dollar facility, which was nearing completion.
The ignition source for the blast has not been determined. CSB investigators said the construction site had many possible ignition sources, and that gas blows could also self-ignite if debris ejected from piping impacted other objects nearby, creating sparks – adding to the risk of the practice.
The plant was designed to use a “combined cycle” to efficiently generate electricity. In this type of facility, natural gas is combusted to drive massive turbines, and then residual heat is recovered from the exhaust gases to produce additional power through the use of steam turbines. Newly constructed pipes frequently have debris and other contaminants that can damage gas turbine blades, necessitating some form of pipe cleaning prior to start-up.
CSB investigators will present the new findings, derived from a survey of 62 representatives from the combined-cycle gas power industry, at professional society meetings in Maryland and Connecticut this week. Thirty-nine survey respondents (63%) indicated their companies had at some time used flammable natural gas to blow out piping. Only one of those 39 respondents said a flare was used to safely combust the gas prior to venting to the atmosphere.
According to the survey, using natural gas to clean pipes remains the most common single practice in industry, employed by 37% of respondents. The other respondents reported using nitrogen, which is nonflammable, or inherently safer alternatives such as air, steam, or cleaning pigs. On February 25, 2010, eighteen days after the explosion at Kleen Energy, the CSB stated that natural gas blows were “inherently unsafe” and urged industry to seek alternatives.
“The industry survey confirms that there are readily available safe alternatives to using flammable natural gas for pipe cleaning,” said CSB Investigator Dan Tillema, P.E. “At the same time, a disturbing number of companies continue to use natural gas which creates the serious risk of a fire or explosion.”
“Venting any significant amount of natural gas into a workplace is an open invitation to disaster,” said CSB Chairman John Bresland. “With more than 120 new gas power plants slated for completion in the next five years, there is an urgent need to ensure safety during the construction and maintenance of gas piping. The CSB will be considering recommendations to promote safer practices in industries that use natural gas as fuel.”
In February 2010, the CSB issued urgent safety recommendations to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) to prohibit indoor venting of natural gas during purging operations within the national fuel gas code, known as NFPA 54. However, the explosion at Kleen Energy occurred during outdoor venting of a massive quantity of gas. Power plants are in any case exempt from the national fuel gas code, which is developed and maintained by nongovernmental consensus committees administered by the NFPA and the American Gas Association, an industry group.
Chairman Bresland said he anticipated the CSB would convene a public hearing in Connecticut in late June to consider further recommendations to prevent accidents involving the planned venting of natural gas at workplaces.
The CSB is an independent federal agency charged with investigating serious chemical accidents. The agency’s board members are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. CSB investigations look into all aspects of chemical accidents, including physical causes such as equipment failure as well as inadequacies in regulations, industry standards, and safety management systems.
The Board does not issue citations or fines but does make safety recommendations to plants, industry organizations, labor groups, and regulatory agencies such as OSHA and EPA. Visit our website, www.csb.gov.
For more information, contact CSB Director of Public Affairs Dr. Daniel Horowitz (202) 261-7613 or (202) 441-6074 cell.
Map of Gulf Oil Spill
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Thought readers might find this map from the NOAA web site interesting:
For daily updated versions, see:
Also may want to view the web site of the Deepwater Horizon Response Sire from the Deepwater Horizon Response Unified Command:
TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis in Edmonton, Canada
Monday, May 10th, 2010Day 1 done… 4 more days to go in the Edmonton 5-Day Public Course. Kevin Parlady and I are having a great time teaching with such an energetic class.
Getting Field Leaders to support TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis? Ask NationalGrid
Monday, May 10th, 2010Chad Martin, VP of Safety for NationalGrid, recently arranged for 30 plus Field Leaders and Directors to attend their first TapRooT® course. An important step in the recently implemented HPI root cause analysis requirement to be performed by this group in the field.
When new programs such as TapRooT® are added to the field by the Safety Department, questions always arise as to when to use it, what support will they get and how will this impact their other field duties? Understanding this, Chad was here to kick this course off in Waltham, Massachusetts.
With the group questions answered, these leaders jumped right in with open minds and plenty of energy.
Pictures from Root Cause Analysis Classes for Marathon and Areva
Saturday, May 8th, 2010Mark Olson sent these pictures from recent TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Classes for Areva and Marathon.
If you would like the world’s best root cause analysis training at your site, contact us for a quote.
UK RAIB Accident Report About the Runaway Wasp
Friday, May 7th, 2010
Mark Paradies & Linda Unger (the Authors of the TapRooT® Book) Teaching Root Cause Analysis in Amsterdam
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Mark and Linda are great instructors, but so are the rest of the TapRooT® Instructor Team. Get more information about our courses at:
TapRooT® / Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting & Root Cause Analysis Course for Saudi Aramco
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Pictures from a 3-Day TapRooT®/Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis Class in Bogota, Columbia
Thursday, May 6th, 2010
BP/Transocean Rig Explosion: Amazing Accident Pictures and Interview with Survivor
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010First, hear a survivor account of the accident…
There are two parts. Both are interesting.
Then see these pictures …
Here’s the pdf that was sent to me from an oil industry source that has the pictures in it…
This will be a difficult investigation. My guess is that there is more thane one Causal Factor – more than just a failure of the blowout preventer – that led to this disaster.
It’s interesting to watch management statements that are initially blaming an “equipment failure” for the accident.
Let’s hope unbiased data is released so that we all can make up our own minds.
Teaching & Learning the 14-Step Cognitive Interviewing Process at the 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Training in Amsterdam
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010Mhorvan Sherret teaches, and the student learn, the 14-Step Cognitive Interviewing Process.
The process helps investigators get more information from interviewees by helping them remember more details.
After they learn the process, they practice it in a realistic interview.
Attend a 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Course to find out about this very valuable technique.
Drug Alert: The Food And Drug Administration investigating Children Medicine Recall
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
McNeil Consumer Healthcare recalls more than 40 children’s medicines that are affected. The recall involves children’s versions of Tylenol, Tylenol Plus, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl, because they don’t meet quality standards. Either too much agent or not enough.
Important Information from the article:
The FDA also says parents in the interim should consider substitute child medications, such as generic versions. It does not recommend that children be given adult-strength Tylenol or Motrin because they are not intended for younger age groups.
The medicines were made and distributed in the United States, and exported to Canada, the Dominican Republic, Dubai, Fiji, Guam, Guatemala, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago and Kuwait.
Details are available by telephone at 1-888-222-6036 or on the Web at www.mcneilproductrecall.com. (more…)
Mark Teaches During Day 1 of the 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Training in Amsterdam
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Yup, that’s Mark, President of SI, teaching from behind the computer …
While the students walk through an example using the Root Cause Tree® …
Learning how the essential techniques of TapRooT® work.
We always combine learning with hands-on experience in TapRooT® Courses.
Team exercises and individual hands are experience an integral part of a TapRooT® Course.
Attend one of our GUARANTEED courses and see how good advanced root cause analysis training can be. Then you will know how much we can help you improve performance at your facility.
See:
http://www.taproot.com/courses.php
for more course info, course dates, and course locations around the world.
Ready for our 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Course in Amsterdam
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010The flowers are in bloom in Holland …
And I’m in Amsterdam getting ready for our 5-Day Course that starts on Monday.
Picture from Colombia – 2-Day Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis Course
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010Another successful 2-Day TapRooT® Class in Bogota, Colombia.
For our public courses around the world, see:
http://www.taproot.com/courses.php
Final Exercise at the 2-Day TapRooT® Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis Course in Manchester, UK
Thursday, April 29th, 2010One advantage of TapRooT® Training is that you not only learn from excellent instructors, but you also get frequent practice of what you learn in interesting, fun exercises.
At the end of the 2-Day and 5-Day TapRooT® Courses, students analyze an incident that they brought from their facility. This allows them to get practical experience and see how TapRooT® will improve their root cause analysis and corrective actions.
See the hard working teams analyzing incidents in Manchester. And the team leaders presenting the results. Can you picture yourself learning to use advanced root cause analysis tools to improve your incident investigations (and proactive improvement efforts)?
Sign up for a TapRooT® Course at:
http://www.taproot.com/courses.php
NASA Balloon Incident in Australia
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
See the Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieyD1FfQOIg
Pictures from Day 1 at the Manchester 2-Day TapRooT® Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis Course
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010Mhorvan Sherrit (Matrix) and Mark Paradies (President, SI) are teaching Day 1 of the 2-Day TapRooT® Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis Class in Manchester, UK.
The students are working hard to learn the essential techniques used in every TapRooT® investigation and root cause analysis. They then practice these techniques in practical exercises based on real industrial and service industry examples (safety, quality, production, patient safety, and environment).
The 2-Day TapRooT® Course is the fastest way to learn advanced root cause analysis.
For more information about the TapRooT® Courses in your area, click on your continent at:
Our TapRooT® Root Cause Instructor welcomed to Qatar with his own statue
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Brian Tink, one of our many TapRooT® Contract Instructors, standing in front of his name statue.
Monday Accident & Lessons Learned: OGP Safety Alert #218 – Compressor Failure & Fire
Monday, April 26th, 2010
OGP SAFETY ALERT NO. 218:
COMPRESSOR FAILURE AND SUBSEQUENT FIRE ON FACILITY
Country: AUSTRALIA
Location: OFFSHORE : Floating Production Storage & Offloading Unit
A high pressure gas compressor experienced a catastrophic failure during start up on an FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offload) vessel. This failure caused a hydrocarbon gas release that auto ignited, resulting in a local jet fire at the compressor and a second fire within the gas turbine enclosure. Fortunately no personnel were injured during the incident.
Centrifugal gas compressors are widely utilised on production facilities within Australian waters. They are typically used to compress gas required for export or well re-injection. A typical gas compressor configuration consists of 1st LP (low pressure) stage, 2nd IP (intermediate pressure) stage and 3rd HP (high pressure) stage.
What could go wrong?
- High reliance on a single piece of safety critical equipment – for example, an instrument
- Inadequate commissioning of the compressor’s control systems
- Inadequate protection systems in place to protect compressors from operating outside design limitations
- Personnel overwhelmed by ‘Nuisance’ Alarms’ can overlook significant
- Personnel not trained for site specific equipment operation
- Inadequate management of safety device ‘inhibits’
- Inadequate commissioning of fire protections systems
Key Lessons:
- Ensure commissioning activities are correctly undertaken and verified by competent persons.
- Ensure control room operations personnel have the required competence and training for their specific control system and type of compressor on location.
- Ensure control room operators are not overloaded by ‘nuisance’ alarms by ensuring effective alarm management through alarm rationalisation.
- Any overrides on safety controls should be controlled and be properly risk assessed.
- Repetitive alarms need to be properly investigated and resolved.
- Ensure effective management of procedural controls by compliance monitoring.
- Wherever possible minimise dependence on operators in safeguarding the compressor.
- Develop the compressor’s safe guard system to ensure a fail safe design.
- Consider the impact of an instrument failure in machine control or protection systems, particularly if fail-to-danger is undetected.
Who is responsible?
Under provisions of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006, operators of facilities have a duty of care to ensure that plant and equipment at the facility are safe and without risk to health. Suppliers of plant have a duty to ensure that plant, when properly used, is safe and without risk to health.
Source Contact:
This alert is being distributed via a partnership between the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (http://www.ogp.org.uk) and NOPSA (http://www.nopsa.gov.au).
For further information email alerts@nopsa.gov.au.
Steve’e Wedding
Saturday, April 24th, 2010Recently, Steve Raycraft, our software support and IT guy, got married. I’m a bit slow in getting a picture posted … but I uploaded this one from my phone…
TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training Down Under
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Paul Hughes, TapRooT® Instructor at PSG in Australia, sent these photos from a 2-Day TapRooT® Incident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis Course held in Perth, Australia, on April 17-18.
We hold public and on-site TapRooT® Courses on every continent. For an up-to-date schedule of the public courses on your continent, click on the appropriate continent at:
http://www.taproot.com/courses.php
And for an on-site course at you facility, contact us by clicking here.
Deepwater Horizon Fire
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Before:
After:
Rig specs: Click here.
Here’s recent news from Associated Press:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/21/deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-fire
Linda Kenney’s Story
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Sometime people have an accident happen to them and nothing is learned. On the other hand, an accident can provide an opportunity to see problems in a different light.
Linda Kenney was the “victim” of a sentinel event. But the learning she has led after the sentinel event isn’t about how to prevent mistakes. Rather, she helped people see that doctors and patients, and their loved ones need support after these types of accidents.
Read about her story at:
http://www.psqh.com/janfeb05/consumers.html
Then come to the TapRooT® Summit to hear her story first hand and to learn from other great Keynote and Breakout Session Speakers.
Pictures from a TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course for MI SWACO in Wyoming
Friday, April 16th, 2010Heidi Reed sent these pictures from a recent course…
TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis in Nashville
Thursday, April 15th, 2010What do Rio Tinto Alcan, GE Energy, Kemira Chemicals, Potash Corp, GCRTA, Saxon Drilling, ConocoPhillips and MI-Precision have in common? They all attended our 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Training in Nashville.
It is always amazing to see such seemingly distinct industries meet in our public courses getting “ah ha moments” together while sharing their Industry Specific Lessons Learned.
Here are just a few pictures taking during the Interviewing Module to the Proactive Audit Module.
Pictures from a Public TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course in Indonesia
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010Adam Sriadi, a TapRooT® Course attendee, sent these photos from a course held a couple of months back in Balikpapan, Indonesia.
Thanks Adam!
To see our full course schedule around the world, click here.
There is one coming up in Balikpapan, Indonesia, by the end of April.
Aviation Human Factors & SMS Wings Seminar…. what a great conference!
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010I had the opportunity to attend a conference with three of my passions: Aviation, Human Factors, and TapRooT®. Even better, it was held in the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Love Field, Dallas, Texas. I posted just a few of my favorite aircraft.
It was nice to see that many of our clients from Jazz, American Airlines, FAA, NASA and Southwest Airlines were also present.
Plus a special appreciation to meeting Dr. Besco who worked with Dr. Chambers (a friend and professor who passed away). Both of these Experts were Frontiers in Human Factors.
The F-16, my First Aircraft as a fuel Systems Mechanic…. at least the aircraft kept its shape : )
Admiral Byrd and the Ryan PT
The Lan FN 2100 and Vintage Bell Helicopter
Piper PA
And this one is…….
