Thanks to Ken Highfill for this one. Take care, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran, Ph.D., P.E. Nuclear Safety Review Concepts 21 Broadleaf Circle Windsor, CT...
Mike, Thanks for your reply. Those involved with the managing the ILC program have other responsibilities as well. They worked issues according to their...
Tim, Thanks. What are the lessons to be learned? Take care, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran, Ph.D., P.E. Nuclear Safety Review Concepts 21 Broadleaf Circle ...
Bill, I think a lesson for us all is that if you are operating in "automatic" then ask yourself: "Why the function you are performing should not be replaced...
I am researching the general area of the extent to which organizations require employees/members/professionals to have specific knowledge of adverse events...
Based on comments from Doug Emberley I have started a Comparative TimeLine(c) for the Wart Removal Machine incident. The Comparative TimeLine(CTL) is just...
Hi, Bill - After troubling you to add me to your list, I'd like you to remove my name from the email list because I learned yesterday that I will be out for an...
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Rome wasn't built in a day and it took a long time for King/Drew to get the way it is. And while it was going downhill lots of people knew about it. Why did no...
Here is one take on this article. What is your take? My take comes from the Davis-Besse 2002 episode. The question is, "How was this problem found?" What does...
Hi Bill and all!!! Happy New Year... Bill, I am "still" (huff and puff) a student but now am ABD...sigh. In response to your query regarding events and event...
As a submariner and a plank owner of the San Fran, I of course found this article particularly interesting. If anyone hears anything more about this, please...
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MessageKent, I'm withholding judgment until I hear more. Over the last few years the performance of submarines such as USS Greenville and USS Hartford leave a...
Bob, Thanks ever so much. The "Normalization of Deviance" that you mention is one of the most important organizational pathologies. I am beginning to think...
Wow its bad today –real bad at PV. Are we seeing a systemic breakdown of the NRC with the continued failure of the agency as seen in examples of DB, HC and...
Bill - An interesting process (Tracer Methodology) which can be easily applied in educational contexts such as public schools and within school programs such...
Hi, Bill - I'm still getting these messages...did you forget to take me off for a while? Alyce ... From: Dr. Bill Corcoran...
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Jan 10, 2005 2:29 pm
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Would you trace on a single student basis or on a cohort basis? Take care, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran, Ph.D., P.E. Nuclear Safety Review Concepts 21...
Bill - I would trace a number of individual students - particularly in the area of special education where each student is required to have an IEP (individual...
Your "technology raid" sounds like a great way to get a culture snapshot, in this case the technology culture. Take care, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran, Ph.D.,...
Thanks to Mary Morton for flagging this one. This will take you ten minutes to read and will probably annoy you, but it might inspire you. Although I am not an...
MessageBob, You have a golden opportunity to show how well PROACT works. I suggest that you take this on as a root cause analysis project and save the results...
The event that Bob Latino reported here is not as unusual as it may appear. Look-alike/sound-alike drug product names are not uncommon, sad to say. All such...
Bill C., You apparently haven't received much response to your two specific questions below. My organization does not have any such requirements, nor to my...
Bill Salot, Thanks for remembering. ... George Bernard Shaw: We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. George Santayana: Those who cannot learn...
Bill C., If your quotations of Shaw and Santayana are both true, then it makes no difference whether we learn anything from history. The trouble with case...
Bill Salot, Perhaps you and I can do something to falsify Shaw's observation. Do you think there is any hope? Take care, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran, Ph.D.,...