Root Cause Analysis

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• Stop Fighting Fires – Prevent Them Instead!

  
  Eliminate The Muda! — Authority: 491
  photo by cheetah100 Déjà vu… You’ve been here before, haven’t you? It is almost a badge of honor that you have fought the same problem before. You might even be the resident expert at fighting fires. In a work environment it may be a process that seems to fail on a daily basis or a piece of equipment that ...
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• Root Cause Analysis Tip: Using Equipment’s Role to help Build a Better SnapChart®

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  A mechanic has been burned from exposure to Hazardous Fluid and this is your Spring SnapChart®. What Events are missing from the SnapChart® above? As a trained TapRooT® Investigator, you probably want to know more about what the mechanic was working on and what PPE s/he was wearing. In this case, the mechanic ...
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• Installing TapRooT® System Software in Windows 7

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  With Windows 7 now available I wanted to let you know that we have an article that describes how to install the TapRooT® System Software in Windows 7.  The article can be found here . Share on Facebook
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• Root Cause Analysis Tip: Don’t Follow Bad Root Cause Analysis Advice

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  I saw two articles by Ronda Levine recommending “5-Whys” as a preferred root cause analysis technique and giving a 5-Why example. Here’s the example from the article: After determining that the quality management project would focus on the cause of the image bleed on the t-shirts (because almost 2/3 of ...
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• Healthcare “Reform” is Greek Tragedy

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 112
  There is great pressure to pass a healthcare Bill, even one as flawed as HR 3962. The new Administration has expended great political capital to do so. The public was promised healthcare reform and expects it. Everyone ‘knows’ how sick healthcare is in the USA and it is true: healthcare is indeed highly ...
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• Root Cause Analysis Tips - Work Direction

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  Happy Wednesday, and welcome to this week’s root cause analysis tips column. This week I thought I would cover one of the basic cause categories - Work Direction. Work Direction speaks to who is in charge, and includes job preparation and supervision (selection of worker and supervision during work). The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Its the system, stupid!

  
  Buyer Behaviour — Authority: 134
  The David Headley affair in India has been a worrying one. To have an LeT operative roam the streets with impunity surely sets off alarm bells. Yet the response of the administration to its aftermath reminds me of similar responses in the organisational context. How most organisational administrative systems respond ...
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• If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 112
  This is written to 435 people in the two Houses of Congress called our Representatives. “Represent” means to speak for or act in the best interest of. If you truly do that, you must vote against the HR (numbers change along with content and without notice) claiming to be healthcare reform. Here are five reasons. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Critically Sick Healthcare – ‘Fixed’ Politically

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 112
  Suppose that health care providers handled sick patients the same way that our so-called Representatives are treating a sick system named healthcare. Below are examples medical care followed in italics by analogous Congressional ‘treatment’ of healthcare. You go to your primary doctor complaining of pain in your ...
  3 weeks ago

• Root Cause Analysis Tip: Equifactor Reference and Custom Tables

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  When using the Equifactor® module of the TapRooT® Software, you have the opportunity to store some very specific data in each Symptom or Possible Cause that can help your equipment experts with their troubleshooting efforts.  Each of these Equifactor® items has an associated Equifactor® Reference area that allows ...
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• Medical programmers are just as bad as the doctors.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 112
  Programmers of medical information technologies (IT) seemed to have learned from the Renaissance Guild Masters. In at least one way, they are just as bad as doctors. For centuries, doctors have been accused of maintaining their power by keeping their arcane knowledge close to the vest and not sharing. To some extent, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Healthcare Needs a Old Fashioned Country Doctor, Part II of II.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 112
  As a result of a hacker attack, this Post from 2/16/09 was deleted. I am now restoring it at the request of a recent new reader who liked Part I and wondered why there was no Part II. While we have been playing “doctor,” our patient has been getting worse. Previously in Part I, we learned that the patient ...
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• A 34th Amendment Solves Healthcare.

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 112
  There is an easy workable solution to the costs of healthcare: easy, workable even cheap but unfortunately politically unacceptable. A solution that we can all – repeat all – support, except our so-called Representatives in Congress. At a campaign rally in 1979, Ronald Reagan quipped that we could easily improve ...
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• ObamaCare – another fix-that-backfires

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 112
  Systems thinkers frequently use the phrase fix-that-backfires. It means a solution to a problem that makes the problem worse. ObamaCare is a perfect example. At the start of his stay in the White House, President Obama identified three critical problems in U.S. healthcare. 1) Excessive cost and healthcare’s ...
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