Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is used to analyse the root causes of focus events with both positive and negative outcomes, but it is most commonly used for the analysis of failures and incidents. Causes for such events can be varied in nature, including design processes and techniques, organizational characteristics, human aspects and external events. RCA can be used for investigating the causes of non-conformances in quality (and other) management systems as well as for failure analysis, for example in maintenance or equipment testing.

RCA is used to analyse focus events that have occurred, therefore this standard only covers a posteriori analyses. It is recognized that some of the RCA techniques with adaptation can be used proactively in the design and development of items and for causal analysis during risk assessment; however, this course focuses on the analysis of events which have occurred.

Finding root cause and proffering effective solution is one the most tedious task of every individual. While some will resort to defensive tactics like it is a waste of their busy time, others will mistake corrections for corrective actions. This delays the closure of identified non-conformances and most time affect the certification process. It can also promote recurrence of process or systemic challenges which contribute to loss of revenue, productive time or productivity. Recurrent incidents and accidents.

This course introduces the corrective action process in Management. In addition, participants learn how to evaluate the philosophy, purpose and benefits of performing an effective cause analysis. The course is based on the context of EN/BS 62740:2015.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The intent of this course is to describe a process for performing RCA and to explain the techniques for identifying root causes. Participants will also acquire skills, approaches and tools for evaluating and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of a management system through effective cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions.

Understand the difference between correction and corrective action
Learn the basic steps of corrective action and root cause analysis
Acquire skills for performing an effective cause analysis
Enhance problem solving effectiveness by providing a model for more deeply analyzing problem situations.
Promote the ability to provide problem-solving support in situations where one is not an expert in the process or technology involved.
Expand the range of tools available for analysis of problem situations.
Utilize various RCA tools
Identify various root causes and select the most effective solution
Take effective corrective actions and advise others to do so.
To solve day to day business challenges

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Quality, Food Safety, HSE, risk and reliability managers, process engineers, technicians, operations supervisors and personnel, Process owners, occurrence investigators, analysts, maintenance directors, internal auditors, Compliance managers, and anyone who wants to improve their ability to solve recurring problems should attend this training.

COURSE CONTENT

Problem solving process

Management/organizational issues affecting RCA projects

RCA models

Barrier analysis
Reason’s model (Swiss cheese model)
Systems models
Systems theoretic accident model and processes (STAMP)

RCA techniques

Events and causal factors (ECF) charting
Multilinear events sequencing (MES) and sequentially timed events plotting
(STEP)
The ‘why’ method
Causes tree method (CTM)
Why-because analysis (WBA)
Fault tree and success tree method
Fishbone or Ishikawa diagram
Safety through organizational learning (SOL)
Management oversight and risk tree (MORT)
AcciMaps
Tripod Beta
Causal analysis using STAMP (CAST)

Tools for root cause analysis (RCA)

Data mining and clustering techniques
Analysis of human performance
Analysis of human failure
Technique for retrospective and predictive analysis of cognitive errors
(TRACEr)
Human factors analysis and classification scheme (HFACS)

The Root Cause Analysis Process

Initiation
Establishing facts
Analysis
- Description
- The analysis team
- Selection of techniques for analysing causes
Validation of causes
Presentation of results

Implementation of corrective actions

Roles and responsibilities

Case Studies and RCA:

Conducting root Cause Analysis and Justify your answers
Verify corrective actions and justify your answer

TRAINING METHODOLOGIES

Presentation
Case Study
Individual Exercises
Group Exercises

DURATION: 2 Days

Cognicert Root Cause Analysis Professional Course