ATTITUDE - DefinitionDefinitions can be easily found by googling on "wordyouwant definition." Leave out the quotation marks. Here's one of attitude. Definition...
Do you include pictures, tables, graphs, and/or other visual devices in your root cause analysis reports? If so, which ones? How are they accepted? If not, how...
Bill Salot and Richard Dearman, Perhaps the better term is "triggering factor," but triggering cause is fine, too. A good practice is to complete the Why...
Bill, I have completed reports both ways. However, I generally attach pictures for illustration of damage and to depict the origin of the failure, tables and...
ATTITUDE - DefinitionThanks Bill C. I wish it were that easy to use the definition of a word from such an available source and then everyone would interpret it...
ATTITUDE - DefinitionBill C; Bob L. and all others - I have been enjoying listening to the various thoughts on the use of "attitude" within an RCA - in fact I...
Attached is an article from Quality Progress and a not-yet-sent letter from me to the editor commenting on the article. Would you be so kind as to give me your...
Bill, I agree with you that the article discusses areas that have been misunderstood, ignored, and misused for years. The questions you brought up and the...
I LOVE IT. ... From: Dr. Bill Corcoran [mailto:William.R.Corcoran@...] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:42 AM To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject:...
Bill: I found the article "interesting" when I first read it, particularly in his need to view preventive and corrective as separate I think you make some very...
Bill, Your comments on the article in Quality Progress were precise and most appropriate. I wonder if the articles in Quality Progress are peer-reviewed prior...
Many thanks to all who commented. Special thanks to Bob Latino for finding a typo! The letter has been submitted. Take care, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran,...
Thanks, John. I'm always on the lookout for a likely windmill. QP said they would share my remarks with the author. Take care, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran,...
That makes my day! Take care, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran, Ph.D., P.E. Nuclear Safety Review Concepts 21 Broadleaf Circle Windsor, CT 06095-1634 Voice and...
All trees are not created equal. I teach the Why Staircase Tree. There are formal rules formal rules for creating a Why Staircase Tree. Anyone who has a...
Thanks, Jerry. It would be great to hear from some of the folks who use text only in their RCAR's. Some places I have worked forbid visuals. Take care, Bill...
Thanks, Mike. There is a major need for both the items you found lacking. Take care, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran, Ph.D., P.E. Nuclear Safety Review Concepts ...
How is an attitude like a paradigm? How is an attitude different from a paradigm? Are there some attitudes that amount to paradigms and vice versa? How about...
I'll take a whack at it! 1. Attitude like a paradigm: They say safety is #1, but we on the floor really know that cost is #1. 2. Attitude is different from a...
Bill C., Let me ask a couple of beginner's questions. You said, "A good practice is to complete the Why Staircase Tree before labeling any behaviors or...
1. Most of the time the triggering factors are behaviors. But some conditions can be on-going and act as triggers in one or more branches of the chains of...
Bill C., Apparently our perspectives are different. 1 - You said, "some conditions can be on-going and act as triggers", and you cite as examples "the...
For members only: Would you let me know some of the questions that should be asked other than the Eight Questions for Insight. Here's the story. ... A gasket...
Bill Salot, I can support your viewpoint and not have any reservations. Above the details are the fundamentals: Every quantifiable effect has four types of...
I am paraphrasing Bill Wilson with this one. He did not quite say the following, which I am saying for the sake of an argument: At the bottom of the Why...
Bob L, Good point. Most root cause analysis tools are subsumed in the Why Staircase Tree, if the tree is exhaustive. Most of the other tools, BAM, MOM,...
Hello Bills, I would like to enhance one of my previous posts. There are important barriers that the Why Staircase Tree, however exhaustive, would never get. ...
The model behind Barrier Analysis is: Threat-Barrier-Target The "barrier" is interposed between the "threat" and the "target." For my purposes in RCA the...
Bob Latino, I thank you for your report that "I routinely find the "absence of a barrier/defense mechanism" to be a latent cause." It is difficult to find...
Bill C., URGENT ! You said, "(If you find a barrier that does not fit in one of the function categories below please send me an URGENT e-mail". I'll give it a...
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