June 12, 2014 | Barb Carr

Root Cause Analysis Tips: 2014 Global TapRooT® Summit Best Practices (Chevron Phillips)

Kenneth Wilburn of Chevron Phillips shared a great best practice at the 2014 Global TapRooT® Summit. Watch his video below, and learn how Kenneth used TapRooT® to reduce injuries at his facility:

If you’re not able to watch the video right now, below is a transcription of his tip:

“Hello my name is Kenneth Wilburn. I work for Chevron Phillips Chemical Company in Port Arthur, Texas. Through the TapRooT® investigation we conducted as a whole company we realized we were lacking in training our short service worker contractors.

A short term contractor is someone who’s worked less than 6 months in our facilities. In Southeast Texas you have your big Exxonmobils, BASF, Duponts, you have thousands of contract workers. You can’t take for granted that these contract workers and have the same work ethic and same safety aspect at every facility, because some facilities are VPP sites, and some are not. what we did, is we recognized this and we took a proactive approach.

Every contractor at our facilities, if they haven’t been working there for six months, they go through a one-on-one training for an hour before they’re allowed to start working at the facility. Then we hand that training off to the safety representative of the contractor and they continue in this program for 90 days. We’ve seen a large reduction in our reportable injuries because of this.”

Want to learn more about our 2015 TapRooT® Summit in Las Vegas?

Click here: http://www.taproot.com/taproot-summit

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