2-Day Pre-Summit Courses, March 9 – 10, 2020
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The 2-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course focuses on the essential TapRooT® techniques needed to investigate a precursor incident. The 5-Step investigation process simplifies TapRooT® to make the investigation efficient yet effective. The training focuses on understanding what happened, identifying Causal Factors, analyzing the Causal Factors using the Root Cause Tree®, and developing effective fixes using the Corrective Action Helper® Module.
Attendees should bring safety incidents or quality issues from their facility for a team exercise. These may be either written reports or they may have knowledge of an incident with no written report. We divide into teams of 2-4 people and have each team analyze a different problem during the course.
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Course materials we provide:
Upon completion of the course, attendees will receive a certificate of completion and a 90-Day Subscription to TapRooT® VI, our dynamic online software that guides you through the TapRooT® process with ease and efficiency.
Register for the TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training *and* the 2020 Global TapRooT® Summit (March 9 – 13, 2020).
Register for this 2-day course only (March 9 – 10, 2020).
Do you have repeat equipment failures? The Equifactor® and TapRooT® Techniques are designed to help you troubleshoot equipment problems and get the information you need to find and fix the root causes of equipment related failures. The Equifactor® Techniques are based on the work of noted equipment reliability expert Heinz Bloch. The tools can be used by maintenance personnel, equipment reliability specialists, maintenance managers, or investigators who don’t have an extensive understanding of equipment engineering.
In two days, you will learn how to use Equifactor® to troubleshoot equipment issues and find out what is leading to failures. Then you will learn to use the TapRooT® System to organize the information you collect, identify the Causal Factors of the failure, and find the fixable root causes of the failure. Finally, you will learn to develop effective fixes to stop future equipment failures.
The tools you will learn include:
In addition, the Equifactor® Techniques can be used to develop proactive equipment performance improvement initiatives and Equipment troubleshooting procedures.
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Upon completion of the course, attendees will receive a certificate of completion and a 90-day subscription to TapRooT® VI Software, our dynamic cloud-based software that computerizes the Equifactor® and TapRooT® Techniques.
Register for the Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis *and* the 2020 Global TapRooT® Summit (March 9 – 13, 2020).
Register for this 2-day course only (March 9 – 10, 2020).
This course includes:
Register for TapRooT® Analyzing and Fixing Safety Culture Issues *and* the 2020 Global TapRooT® Summit (March 9 – 13, 2020).
Register for this 2-day course only (March 9 – 10, 2020).
In all your HSEQ risk domains and management Systems – are you frustrated that the outcomes of your current risk assessments performed in your organization lack consistency, confidence, reliability, and accuracy?
Do you & your facilitators and participants of the risk assessments have the knowledge & skills to use the most effective RA methods and tools?
Risk & Opportunity Based Thinking ROBT & Risk Assessments RA are now recognized by new versions of ISO 31000 / ISO 45001 / ANSI Z10 / ISO 14001 / ISO 9001 / ANSI Z590.3 as definitely needed in each and every risk-informed decision-making process.
ROBT and RA need to be applied in all aspects of your the business without being confused and undermined by subjective beliefs, biases and risk perceptions.
The course has been continually improved. It still covers the core Best Practices that have made facilitation and participation in risk assessments as accurate and reliable as possible. As well, a number of other recent improvements include:•
The presenter is Jim Whiting, an international risk management expert, and long-time TapRooT® Instructor. Jim was a contributory member of the committee that wrote the first international risk management standard ISO 31000:2009 Risk Management – Guidelines, which has now become the USA Standard – ANSI/ASSP/ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management – Guidelines and CAN/CSA/ISO 31000. The course is facilitated in a participative workshop format. 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 advancing the quality of your risk assessments in ALL risk domains, but particularly HSEQ, then attend and profit from this course.
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Register for RISK MANAGEMENT – BEST PRACTICES & ROBT RISK & OPPORTUNITY -BASED THINKING *and* the 2020 Global TapRooT® Summit (March 9 – 13, 2020).
Register for this 2-day course only (March 9 – 10, 2020).
To get the most from your TapRooT® VI Software you need to learn how to:
Dan Verlinde, Director of Information Technology and Software Development and Angie Comer, Software Project Manager, will teach an intensive review of the TapRooT® VI Software. Whether you are a System Administrator or a TapRooT® User, you will learn all the capabilities built into this amazing software. Don’t get just 10-20% from your software investment. Learn the full power of your TapRooT® Software!
Course Guarantee: Attend this course then use the knowledge that you’ve gained when you return to your facility. If you aren’t satisfied that the course helps you perform your job better and that the course will save you much more than the cost of the course fee, just return the books, course materials, and/or software and we will refund your entire course fee. It’s that simple. How can we offer such an iron clad, risk free guarantee? We know this course is so good that you won’t want to send your materials back! Please bring your laptop to this course (with wireless capabilities, if possible).
Upon completion of the course, attendees will receive a certificate of completion and a 90-Day Subscription to TapRooT® VI, our dynamic online software that guides you through the TapRooT® process with ease and efficiency.
Register for TapRooT® Software Implementation and Application *and* the 2020 Global TapRooT® Summit (March 9 – 13, 2020).
Register for this 2-day course only (March 9 – 10, 2020).
The 2-Day What-If & TapRooT® Hazard course is a process hazard analysis course incorporating many of the methodologies used during an incident investigation. The SnapCharT® will be used to map out actions and all the conditions necessary for successful management of change. Using process and instrument drawings, the class will practice using Safeguard analysis to generate the type of thought-provoking questions essential to facilitate a What-If team analysis.
The same process used to develop action items following an incident investigation will be proactively applied. Using the Root Cause Tree® and Root Cause Tree® Dictionary to analyze significant issues, the Corrective Action Helper® Guide will aid in creating an action plan to address potential problems associated with a change in process design.
During the 2-Day What-If course, you will practice the communication skills needed to facilitate a team meeting effectively. The What-If methodology is well-suited for identifying potential hazards when managing change. Incorporating many of the TapRooT® skills proactively in the What-If analysis will keep your incident investigators ready when they need to lead an investigation.
Register for Using “What if” and TapRooT® for Hazard Assessment *and* the 2020 Global TapRooT® Summit (March 9 – 13, 2020).
Register for this 2-day course only (March 9 – 10, 2020).
There is so much to remember during evidence collection … and so much to lose if you are not prepared.
Module 1: Class Introductions and Investigation Skills Inventory
Module 2: Preplanning for Evidence Collection
Module 3: Evidence Collection and the TapRooT® Process
Module 4: Scene Management
Module 5: Initial Site Visit
Module 6: Use TapRooT® Tools to Collect Better Evidence
Module 7: Effective Interviewing for Incident Investigation
This course is offered as a 2-Day Public course Pre-Summit. Register below.
We’ll come to your site. This course is also offered as a 1 or 2-day onsite (standalone) course, or a 1 or 2-day course combined with 2-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training.
The modules are flexible. For a 1-day course, we can deep-dive the topics of most interest to you and give a general overview of those that are less important to your team.
For a 2-day course, we will identify causal factors and analyze them using the Root Cause Tree®. (The 1-day course covers evidence collection using the SnapCharT®, we don’t do an analysis due to time constraints of a 1-day training.)
2-day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training is a prerequisite. Contact us for exceptions.
Upon completion of the course, attendees will receive a certificate of completion and a 90-Day Subscription to TapRooT® VI, our dynamic online software that guides you through the TapRooT® process with ease and efficiency.
Register for TapRooT® Evidence Collection and Interviewing Techniques to Sharpen Investigation Skills *and* the 2020 Global TapRooT® Summit (March 9 – 13, 2020).
Register for this 2-day course only (March 9 – 10, 2020).
Get more information about holding a course at your site.
Joel Haight, human factors expert, will teach basic and advanced knowledge of human error prevention in this 2-day course.
Blame is common after an accident. After all, a human made a mistake. It is their fault! Or is it? Sometimes errors are designed into the system. And you can find and fix these system causes of human error before the accident happens.
The goal of this course is to teach you to understand human error, how humans operate….what are our capacities, constraints and needs are so that we can maximize human performance and minimize human errors.
Would you like to understand human errors and how to analysis, prediction and categorization them? Learn to minimize errors and resulting impact in their own facilities with tools that can be used in conjunction with the TapRooT® System and can be incorporated into your corrective actions.
There will be hands-on exercises including an analysis of an unsolved example (error case) that you bring from your facility. your operations and we’ll try to dissect and solve it during the course.
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Upon completion of the course, attendees will receive a certificate of completion and a 90-day subscription to TapRooT® VI Software, our dynamic cloud-based software that computerizes the Equifactor® and TapRooT® Techniques.
This course includes reference material.
Register for Stopping Human Error *and* the 2020 Global TapRooT® Summit (March 9 – 13, 2020).
Register for this 2-day course only (March 9 – 10, 2020).
How effective are the safeguards and countermeasures you use to minimize errors and risk potential each day? How often do the corrective actions you put in place fail to keep problems from coming back, again and again? Would you like to learn techniques for measuring and improving safeguard and barrier effectiveness?
If you are looking to reduce the potential for daily process errors, and in turn, risk potential, this workshop is for you. If you have attended the TapRooT® 2-day or 5-day course, the workshop concepts and tools will help you write more effective corrective actions to address the root causes that you have identified. The workshop content and exercises will also help you leverage the power of those ‘Needs Improvement’ (NI) root causes that you might have selected.
This workshop also explores the common types of work process and tool design flaws that contribute to human error, including fixes that fail. From a reactive improvement perspective, it gives you a coach and a practice field for learning to write more effective and sustainable corrective and preventive actions. If you want to proactively reduce the potential for errors and failures, this workshop gives you many best practices and assessment tools that can be used to improve safeguard effectiveness and ‘mistake proof’ your workplace.
All two-day course participants will receive a 180-page, full color, course workbook and a copy of the facilitator’s book, “Error Proof – How to Stop Daily Goofs for Good.”
In this workshop, you will learn how to:
Presenter Bio
Kevin McManus serves as Chief Excellence Officer for Great Systems! and has taught more than 400 courses, over 15 years, as an international contract trainer for the TapRooT® root cause analysis process. During his almost forty years in the business world, Kevin has served as an Industrial Engineer, Training Manager, Production Manager, Plant Manager, and Director of Quality. He holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering and an MBA. Kevin has served as a national Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Award Examiner for twenty years, and he is currently serving a three-year term on the national Baldrige Judge’s Panel. Kevin also writes the monthly performance improvement column for Industrial and Systems Engineer magazine, is an Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering Fellow, and has been a member of IISE for thirty-nine years. His newest book, “The Ultimate Org Ergo Book – How to Build a Better Organization”, will be published in 2020.
Register for Best Practices in Mistake Proofing & Corrective Action Writing *and* the 2020 Global TapRooT® Summit (March 9 – 13, 2020).
Register for this 2-day course only (March 9 – 10, 2020).
Healthcare Organizations, including Emory University Hospitals and the U.S. Military Health System, have taken advantage of the knowledge gained by the implementation of the TapRooT Root Cause Analysis methodology, evidence collection tools, and software capabilities. The TapRooT 2-Day Patient Safety Course focuses on how to stop needless deaths and improve hospital financials by leveraging TapRooT to reduce risk, improve the quality of care, create a just culture, reduce financial penalties for bad outcomes, reduce litigation costs resulting from mistakes, and increase efficiencies in operations while protecting patients and staff.
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Register for Patient safety *and* the 2020 Global TapRooT® Summit (March 9 – 13, 2020).
Register for this 2-day course only (March 9 – 10, 2020).