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Root Cause Analysis Handbook

A Guide to Efficient and Effective Incident Investigation

By: ABS Consulting,Lee N. Vanden Heuvel,Donald K. Lorenzo,Laura O. Jackson,Walter E. Hanson,James J. Rooney,David A. Walker

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Root Cause Analysis Handbook

A Guide to Efficient and Effective Incident Investigation

By: ABS Consulting,Lee N. Vanden Heuvel,Donald K. Lorenzo,Laura O. Jackson,Walter E. Hanson,James J. Rooney,David A. Walker

Are you trying to improve performance, but find that the same problems keep getting in the way? Safety, health, environmental quality, reliability, production, and security are at stake. You need the long-term planning that will keep the same issues from recurring. Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A Guide to Effective Incident Investigation is a powerful tool that gives you a detailed step-by-step process for learning from experience. Reach for this handbook any time you need field-tested advice for investigating, categorizing, reporting and trending, and ultimately eliminating the root causes of incidents. It includes step-by-step instructions, checklists, and forms for performing an analysis and enables users to effectively incorporate the methodology and apply it to a variety of situations. Using the structured techniques in the Root Cause Analysis Handbook, you will: Understand why root causes are important. Identify and define inherent problems. Collect data for problem-solving. Analyze data for root causes. Generate practical recommendations. The third edition of this global classic is the most comprehensive, all-in-one package of book, downloadable resources, color-coded RCA map, and licensed access to online resources currently available for Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Called by users "the best resource on the subject" and "in a league of its own." Based on globally successful, proprietary methodology developed by ABS Consulting, an international firm with 50 years' experience in 35 countries. Root Cause Analysis Handbook is widely used in corporate training programs and college courses all over the world. If you are responsible for quality, reliability, safety, and/or risk management, you'll want this comprehensive and practical resource at your fingertips. The book has also been selected by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the Risk and Insurance Society (RIMS) as a "must have" for their members.

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A Guide to Efficient and Effective Incident Investigation

By: ABS Consulting,Lee N. Vanden Heuvel,Donald K. Lorenzo,Laura O. Jackson,Walter E. Hanson,James J. Rooney,David A. Walker

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A Guide to Efficient and Effective Incident Investigation

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Root Cause Analysis Handbook

A Guide to Effective Incident Investigation, 2005 Edition

By: ABS Consulting,Lee N. Vanden Heuvel

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Root Cause Analysis Handbook

A Guide to Effective Incident Investigation, 2005 Edition

By: ABS Consulting,Lee N. Vanden Heuvel

Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A Guide to Effective Incident Investigation presents a proven system designed for investigating, categorizing, and ultimately eliminating, rootcauses of incidents with safety, health, environmental, quality, reliability, and production-process impacts.Defined as a tool to help investigators describe what happened, to determine how it happened, and to understand why it happened, the Root Cause Analysis System enables businesses to generate specific, concrete recommendations for preventing incident recurrences.Using the factual data of the incident, the system also allows quality, safety, and risk and reliability managers an opportunity to implement more reliable and more cost-effective policies that result in major, long-term opportunities for improvement.Such process improvements increase a business' ability to recover from and prevent disasters with both financial and health-and-safety implications.Special features include a 17 inch by 22 inch pull-out Root Cause Map, a powerful tool for identifying and coding root causes.The book helps readers to understand why root causes are important, to identify and define inherent problems, to collect data for problem solving, to analyze data for root causes, and to generate practical recommendations.- - - - - - This edition is a reprinting of the 199 edition.- - - - - -ORGANIZATION OF THE ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS HANDBOOKThe focus of this handbook is on the application of the Root Cause Map to the root cause analysis process. The Root Cause Map is used in one of the later steps of the root cause analysis process to identify the underlying management systems that caused the event to occur or made the consequences of the event more severe. The first five chapters of this handbook are an overview of the root cause analysis process. These provide the context for use of the Root Cause Map. Chapter 6 provides references.Chapter 1, "Introduction to Root Cause Analysis," presents a basic overview of the SOURCE (Seeking Out the Underlying Root Causes of Events) root cause analysis process.Chapter 2, "Collecting and Preserving Data for Analysis," outlines the types of data and data sources that are available. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 describe the three major steps in the rootcause analysis process.?Chapter 3, "Data Analysis Using Causal Factor Charting," provides a step-by-step description of causal factor charting techniques. Chapter 4, "Root Cause Identification," explains the organization and use of the Root Cause Map. Chapter 5, "Recommendation Generation and Implementation," provides guidance on developing and implementing corrective actions. The references section, Chapter 6, provides additional information for those interested in learning more about specific items contained in the handbook.Appendix A, "Root Cause Map Node Descriptions," describes each segment of the Root Cause Map and presents detailed descriptions of the individual nodes on the map. AppendixB is the Root Cause Map itself.

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