Is noncompliance going to be harder to hide? Take care, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran, Ph.D., P.E. NSRC Corporation 21 Broadleaf Circle Windsor, CT 06095-1634 ...
I think it will be harder to hide. This bothers one side of me, the privacy issue is significant. However, the other side is that there are unfortunately...
... From: romilio To: Root_Cause_State_of the_Practice@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:30 AM Subject: Safety of Nuclear Energy Plants. Dear...
Tasuki, I'm with Terry on this. However, experience has taught me that, especially on the more significant events, you should use more than one tool/technique...
I have found that people often use investigation tools but forget that they are meant to help keep process thinking on track or be question prompters. Calling...
I agree with Steve wholeheartedly. The RCA investigation I'm currently working on is using a variety of techniques including Kepner-Tregoe Problem Analysis,...
I always use mutiple tools. These are the tried and true warhorses: Consequence Work Breakdwon Structure Factor Trees Comparative TimeLine Barrier Analysis...
Terry, Ay my home, just south of Minetto, we got about four feet. I was in Oswego yesterday and they are fairly well plowed out, lot's of big piles. Steve ...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the Root_Cause_State_of_the_Practice group: Some organizations have a Corrective Action Program (CAP)...
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The new poll is: Some organizations have a Corrective Action Program (CAP) that collects reports of problems, categorizes them, provides for their ...
Bill, if I may, I would suggest a rewording of two among the last statements in the poll. As currently written, they state: - CAP management should be...
Art, The DIAC is such a crucial and neglected concept that I took the trouble to elaborate. See the new entry below. It is from the Rooticians' Dictionary at ...
The new poll about Corrective Action Programs is quite interesting in its current state of nine (9) voters. I hope that the rest of you click in your views. If...
Randy, Thanks. I will take your suggestions on a later poll. For technical reasons it is better not to change this one. Take care, Bill Corcoran W. R....
Does anyone have a defined method for doing Extent of Condition/ Extent of Cause? Is there an available acceptance criterion for telling when the root cause...
Bill C., Ths short answer is "of course". The companies I've worked for and those I've worked with all have standards for looking beyond the immediate cause...
Bill C., Where I work, there is no "defined method for doing Extent of Condition/ Extent of Cause". In fact, I've never heard such expressions spoken on the...
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Bill – When I look for extent of condition, I mine the CR database for previous incidents where this same root cause could have existed. When I pull a...
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There is a new e-group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Palo_Verde_Lessons_to_be_Learned/ or by visiting...
My company sent engineers to Sellafield to work with the regulator for the THORP plant in helping to understand what happened and why. The regulator has not...
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Bill Rigot, Thanks ever so much for the slideshow. I relocated it to ...
Remember that this problem was not surfaced by the Army. It was surfaced by a newspaper reporter. What's wrong with this picture? What were the earlier,...
Unfortunately, this happens to be a very good match with the March 5 issue of Newsweek which I found in our mailbox today. There is a double amputee 21 year...