August 8, 2011 | Barb Carr

Exclusive Advanced Root Cause Analysis Courses

Each year before the Summit we hold exclusive 2-day courses! Most of these are offered only once a year and each is specifically designed to enhance your root cause expertise in two days flat. Sign up for a course and the Summit and receive a discount on your registration. This is the first of three weeks that highlight our eleven Pre-Summit courses, four of which are NEW! These courses will be held February 27 and 28, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada, right before the Global TapRooT® Summit.

2-Day TapRooT® Incident Investigation & Root Cause Analysis

Learn the basics of the TapRooT® System for finding the root causes of incidents, accidents, quality problems, near-misses, operational errors, hospital sentinel events, and other types of problems. Once you find the real root causes using this systematic process, develop effective fixes that will keep problems from happening again. Learn to find and fix problems proactively before an incident occurs with TapRooT®.

Risk Management Best Practices

Australian risk management expert and TapRooT® Instructor Jim Whiting has enhanced this course for 2012. Jim brings his risk management root cause analysis experience and best practices from around the world to this course. If you are interested in increasing the efficiency of your improvement efforts by getting the most out of your use of risk management and root cause analysis techniques, attend this course. Get your seat fast—it’s your only chance to attend this course in North America this year!

NEW! TapRooT® Evidence Collection

We designed TapRooT® to help your investigators find unbiased, evidence-based root causes, so a TapRooT® investigation is only as good as the data collected. SI Senior Associate and Equifactor® Program Manager Ken Reed teaches this course. It will empower your senior investigators to conduct professional, in-depth investigations by developing their evidence gathering skills, including:
• Initial incident response,
• Investigation team coordination,
• Photography techniques,
• Cognitive Interviewing,
• Control of blood-borne pathogens, and
• 4 P’s and 1 R of Information.

NEW! TapRooT® Quality/Six Sigma/Lean Advanced Root Cause Analysis Training

Product defects, customer complaints, delays in projects, and lack of timely response erode your financial gains and cause your company to lose customers to the competition. What role does your Quality System play in failing to predict or correct the issues listed above? Learn to apply Lean Six Sigma with correct facts, sponsorship, and ownership to reduce process variation and waste. Master the basic Six Sigma tools and find out how to integrate TapRooT® into your quality and safety programs, creating the most comprehensive proactive and reactive process improvements you’ve ever had.

Don’t forget to come back next week to learn about more of our once-a-year Pre-Summit courses! Take a look at our Summit page for more information on the Pre-Summit Courses, Summit, and how to register.