All Accidents are Like One or More of the Following: Â Russian Roulette, i.e., performing a known hazardous activity time and time again until the round is in...
Bonjour mr. Bill (and others), Thanks for sharing these sharp observations. They tickle the fantasy and challenge the brain. However, before being able to...
Bruce, Please see therevised version at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Root_Cause_State_of_the_Practice_4/database Take care, Bill Corcoran Mission:...
Yes, Dr. Bill It certainly is/ It is a very interesting read and you may want to post it. It is quite recent as it refers to the Hudson River "landing" of the...
Bill, My mathematics background causes me to have to respectfully disagree with your semantic restriction of all accidents into these three categories. In the...
Larry D and Bill C, I would call Larry's new category "land mines". If you are unaware of them, or even if you are aware and try to avoid them, you can still...
This is a great victory for S.T.A.R. (Stop-Think-Act-Review). Â The review step was to check the fluoride level after the addition. Â It is also a victory...
Dr. Bill, "Unfortunately, the drums are all the same size and the same color," water department superintendent Kirk Baker said. "All I can say is it was an...
Dr. Bill, I'm even less sanguine now. Most of the articles in the Google search you cited are repeats of the original unenlightening AP report of the event....
Dr. Bill, Rule #1 in this case is that null consequences for dysfunctional behavior are ultimately rewards. I was Chief Engineer of a nuclear aircraft carrier...
Bill Rigot, Â Having an uncanny grasp of the obvious, I am adding "disparate languages" to the list of Lines of Inquiry. Â Questions for the group: Â How...
A few months back our safety regulator (Workman's Compensation Board) arrived on site and found numerous safety infractions and wrote us up. The responsible...
What about if the regulator doesn't even bother to look for things? Then it becomes self-regulation which ultimately ends up as no regulation because...
Dr. Bill, We can address the disparate language in the Human Performance context in analysis of error precursors that lead to an event. There's a standard pick...
How many rooticians would figure that out? Take care, Â Bill Corcoran Mission: Saving lives, pain, assets, and careers through thoughtful inquiry. Motto: If...
Please scroll down for a thought provoking mini-item with links. Thanks ever so much to Steve Hamley at ORNL. Take care, Bill Corcoran Mission: Saving...
Dr. Bill, I am not really convinced that you used the word incarnation correctly, having just looked it up in my dictionary. Perhaps you are religious, but I...
Typically, SSBN submarines operate VERY quietly when on patrol. They try to avoid detection by anyone and anything. It is pretty unlikely that 2 SSBNs on...
Jack, Perhaps what Bill really was thinking was "incantation" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incantation) since he enchantingly uses such "abracadabra"...
Larry, Regarding incantation, I think that you are right. I just looked it up. Jack Stanford ... Jack, Perhaps what Bill really was thinking was "incantation"...
I'm working on one that is a classic "proceeding in the face of uncertainty." I'll try to remember to send it to you when I get finished. Ed Stephenson Causal...
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