Can You Improve Your Root Cause Analysis?
Don’t Be Happy Where You Are
Are you happy with your root cause analysis? Are your investigations good enough if nobody complains? Have you become complacent about preventing accidents because you haven’t had one in a while? Are you resting on your laurels?
When you stop pushing for improvement, you start coasting downhill. As my boss once told me:
“If you’re not pedaling, you’re going downhill.”
Do you want to end up at the bottom of the hill while your competitors are reaching new heights?
Why Improving Root Cause Analysis Is Important
Root Cause Analysis is a business-critical tool. Why is it business critical? Because when root cause analysis is applied reactively and proactively, it:
- stops repeat incidents,
- prevents major accidents,
- improves the quality of your product,
- helps achieve operational excellence, and
- helps achieve high equipment reliability.
This has been proven again and again. Would you like to see some examples? See the success stories at HERE.
Therefore, if being the best is important to your company, having the best root cause analysis system should be a critical part of your improvement efforts. And you won’t have the best root cause analysis system if you don’t continually improve.
A Root Cause Analysis Improvement Plan
The first step in improvement is to choose a world-class root cause analysis system. A system that has been designed to include human performance and equipment reliability best practices. A system that has been thoroughly tested and reviewed by performance improvement experts. A system that had been adopted and proven useful by industry leaders around the world. A system that has been, and continues to be, continuously improved.
What system meets all these criteria? TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis.
See the history of the development of the TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis System HERE and HERE.
Anyone interested in implementing the TapRooT® RCA System should start by attending the 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Training. For the dates and locations of our public 5-Day Courses, CLICK HERE.
Next, you can connect with one of our Implementation Advisors to develop an implementation roadmap. Plan the training you will need for your company and the implementation of the patented TapRooT® Software.
Continuous Improvement
You don’t become and stay the best root cause analysis system without continuous improvement. That’s why we are continually improving our:
And we share what we learn with our TapRooT® User family. How? Read on…
The Global TapRooT® Summit
The Global TapRooT® Summit is the way we share:
- root cause analysis, incident investigation, and human performance best practices,
- the latest performance improvement and equipment reliability technology,
- best practices for our TapRooT® Certified Instructors teaching root cause analysis,
- motivation to make improvement happen, and
Plus, fun while learning.
There are five Keynote Speakers and six Best Practice Tracks. Each Best Practice Track has nine different sessions. CLICK HERE for more information.
All of this comes with a guarantee:
Attend the Global TapRooT® Summit. Go back to work and implement your roadmap to success. If you don’t save 10 times the cost of the Summit fee, let us know and return your Summit materials and we will refund 100% of the Summit registration fee. This guarantee shows how certain we are that you will learn valuable best practices to take your team’s performance—and that of your whole organization—to the next level.
Anyone interested in improving root cause analysis will find that the Summit is packed with invaluable information. Plus, they will network (meet experts and peers) and have discussions that may be even more valuable than the scheduled talks.
TapRooT® SuperUser Group
For TapRooT® Users interested in continuous improvement, we hold a free quarterly virtual meeting to share user success stories, best practices, and challenges.
Marcus Miller hosts these meetings and is the person you need to contact to participate. CLICK HERE to contact Marcus about participating in the next meeting (or call 865-539-2139).
Root Cause Network™ Newsletter
Finally, there is a weekly newsletter that you may register for to get the latest information about:
- root cause analysis
- human performance improvement
- TapRooT® Software updates
- upcoming TapRooT® Courses
- Summit information
- incident lessons learned
- success stories
- and the weekly features (the “Joke”, the “Bad Day”, and the “How Far Away is Death”)
Just CLICK HERE and select the “REQUEST FREE NEWSLETTER” in the “reason for contacting” box and supply the relevant information to recieve the newsletter for free.
RCA Improvement Questions?
If you have questions and would like to discuss improving your root cause analysis with one of our experts, please call us at 865-539-2139.
