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GET IT RIGHT:
5 CRITICAL
COMPONENTSIN YOUR RCA
PROGRAM
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INCIDENT INVESTIGATION
AN IMPROVEMENTPROCESSContrary to popular belief, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and RootCause Failure Analysis (RCFA) is not a silver bullet. Neither isfinding the root cause a realistic expectation - if there was onlyone cause, then it would be found easily. But there are stepsyou can take to ensure that an RCA delivers the best possibleoutcomes for your organisation.
Think of root causes in the same way that Olympic athletes workout their weaknesses over a four-year span - making marginalgains and small improvements that lead to a better result at thenext Olympics. Root causes are typically the same. You shouldaddress a number of known faults to reduce an unwanted effectto an acceptable level.
The right RCA tool is immensely powerful, but it should beused in the right context, with the right people, and the rightsupport. The following pages outline how to develop a robustRCA program that will make your current and future RCAinvestigations more successful.
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DefineSET YOUR OBJECTIVES& PROCEDURES
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With this in mind, the first stage of RCA is all about preparation. This shouldhappen in the background, long before any incident occurs. The more preparedyou are now, the better the outcomes if an incident occurs down the track.
Here are the key steps in defining your RCA process.
1. SET YOUR OBJECTIVES
Create trigger points to instigate RCA. These triggers should reflect whatsimportant to your business, and most organisations would typically include:
Safety
Environment
Revenue
Cost Reputation
Frequency
With each of these, ask what an unacceptable measure would be. For example,any reportable safety issue, any reportable release to atmosphere, loss of revenueof more than $30,000, costs of more than $10,000, any event happening more than
four times, and so on. Now, youve got something to measure yourselves against.
DEFINE - SET YOUR OBJECTIVES & PROCEDURES
Every business should have a clearly defined
RCA plan in place. Just in case. After all, the
last thing you need if an incident has occurred
is a scramble to appoint a facilitator, or
gather the tools needed to collect evidence.
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DEFINE - SET YOUR OBJECTIVES & PROCEDURES
Be honest with your triggers. Its easy to develop a setof triggers that would be right to do, world class,or sending the right message. However, its very rarefor fledgling RCA processes to operate at world class
standards.
Your triggers should match your facilitation resources- the experience of your facilitators, the availability ofstakeholders to participate in the investigations, andthe resources available to deliver the improvements.By getting this balance right, you can accuratelymonitor performance, incorporate it into a continuous
improvement process and - when youre ready for it -youll be world class.
2. IDENTIFY ROLES ANDRESPONSIBILITIES
Who is expected to do what? Make it clear what you
expect of each member of the team.
At the same time, encourage the team to follow thelead of the best players. These people - typicallytechnicians and operators - will arrive at the RCAinvestigation armed with timelines, trends, operatinginstructions and manuals. They are focused and readyfor action.
Document what you expect to be brought to aninvestigation and who is responsible for bringing it.The quality of your RCA investigation depends upon thecauses being supported by evidence - so develop yourprocesses to support the collection of good evidence,which will then be used during the investigation.
As a final point, encourage and support your
facilitators to halt investigations with no evidence.Break up the meeting, and use the time to get thoseresponsible to collect the data required.
Be honest-refine yourtriggers to matchyour capabilities.
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DEFINE - SET YOUR OBJECTIVES & PROCEDURES
3. SELECT AND TRAININVESTIGATORS
The key to a successful RCA is having a great leader.So what makes a good facilitator?
Appoint someone who:
Recognises the strengths and abilities ofindividual group members and helps them to feelcomfortable about sharing their hopes, concernsand ideas
Supports the group, giving participants confidencein sharing and trying out new ideas
Values diversity and is sensitive to the differentneeds and interests of group members, such asgender, age, profession, education, economic andsocial status
Leads by example through attitudes, approach andactions
Balance the number of facilitators with the capabilitiesof the organisation. It may be tempting to train asmany facilitators as your budget allows, particularlygiven the high turnover rate (unfortunately, manyfacilitators quit after being trained - which oftenboils down to a poor selection of facilitator, quality of
training or insufficient support post-training).
Instead, appoint fewer facilitators but choose themwell. Ensure they get access to quality training fromexperienced trainers, and have enough trainingsessions to build their skills and confidence. Post-training, give them strong support, particularly ininitial investigations.
Its a bonus if
the facilitatorfits by function,technical abilityor discipline, too.
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By training fewer facilitators, you may have budget left over. Run a shorteroverview or participants course for the other people who will take part in RCAinvestigations, such as operators, 1st line managers, technicians, drivers and soon.
4. PREPARE THE GO-BAGYour goal with RCA is to right something when it goes wrong. To do this, you needto collect as much evidence as you can. Have a go-bag at the ready for the RCAteam to go out and collect evidence.
This bag should contain:
Tape measure
Camera
Evidence check sheet
Torch
Clipboard Calipers
DEFINE - SET YOUR OBJECTIVES & PROCEDURES
Notebook
Magnifying glass
Generic PPE
Pens, pencils, highlighters
Permanent Marker Clear plastic bags (for evidence)
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MeasureCOLLECT DATA & ASSESSITS SIGNIFICANCE
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MEASURE - COLLECT DATA AND ASSESS ITS SIGNIFICANCE
Data collection shouldnt just scrape the
surface. Members of the RCA team should
know their responsibilities and head straight
out to collect the data needed for a thorough
investigation.
Dont be tempted by a quick fix
When an incident occurs in the workplace, your first thoughts are, What are wegoing to do? and What do we need to know?
As a starting point, you need to know how big the incident is - that is, how farfrom normal, how significant? This will tell you how much effort to put into thesolution. To find out how big it is, you go and measure it. Then, you look forimmediate solutions, backed up by a few more measurements.
You implement the solutions, the status quo is restored,
its a job well done. Right?
Not quite.
To future-proof a fix, you need more than start-up data
To ensure that the incident does not reoccur, you need more than just surface
data. Digging a little deeper doesnt take much longer - but it does takecommitment.
Youve set up your roles, responsibilities and procedures; and your go-bag is atthe ready. Use a data collection checklist to guide the collection, and appoint theperson/s to go out and collect it.
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MEASURE - COLLECT DATA AND ASSESS ITS SIGNIFICANCE
A typical checklist looks like this:
Preserve evidence at the scene
Photographs - work with operations to try and get
photographs prior to and during the incident
Retain the failed components, if possible
Interview witnesses
Initiate data mapping
CMMS data
Immediate vibration levels Immediate process conditions
Computer trending
Review documentation
Condition monitoring history
Lubrication history
Management of change history
Process data sheets
Plant line diagrams
Procedures and manuals
Conduct tests or recreations, particularly if there is
minimal or no evidence to collect. In keeping withyour safe practices or under Management of Changeprocedures, plan the start-up or steady state processwith a view to capturing key events or measurements.Your initial data collection will invariably lead you tosome conclusions or at least hypotheses. These can betested if circumstance permits.
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AnalyseEMBED YOUR CHOSENANALYSIS METHOD
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Trust in the
process.The big picturewill take care ofitself.
CONDUCT THE ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
ANALYSE - EMBED YOUR CHOSEN ANALYSIS METHOD
With the evidence collected, your RCA team is
ready to start analysing the data, and arriving
at potential solutions. This component relies
on a no-holes-barred attitude, where all ideas
are captured as you journey towards the fix.
Define the problem
Devote about a quarter of the RCA investigation to defining the problem. The moreclear and precise this definition is, the quicker the cause and effect chart will bebuilt.
Use post-it notes in the definition as well as the chart building. Its surprising howoften one of the significant items becomes the problem itself.
At this point, the facilitator should encourage the participants to get thestorytelling out of their system. While they are speaking, the facilitator should becollecting causes on post-it notes and parking them next to the chart or in theholding area for the first pass review.
Identify evidenced causes and effects
The goal here is to create a common reality onyour cause and effect chart. Starting this process
can seem scary, particularly for those who arenew to the RCA process. These people are staringat a large sheet of brown paper with a primaryeffect on it, and a blank post-it note in their hand.They have no idea where the chart will go.
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To help maintain the flow, drive the caused by caseand go back and repeat the causal chain when it startsto dry up. Keep demanding evidence, and trust that theparticipants will know the difference between actions
and conditions. Write the causes verbatim - cursesand all - to keep things rolling and to really capture themeaning. Language can always be cleaned up for thefinal chart.
Successful RCAs often move beyond the brown paper.Walls and windows get covered in notes to maintainthe flow. Participants will have the mental capacity to
join in the lines that arent there; however, if it lookslike its getting untidy then take a short break and tidyit up.
Identify effective solutions
This is the most creative - and enjoyable - part of theprocess. While the subjects of most investigations arevery serious, the RCA itself shouldnt be too sombre.
Rather, it should be professional - and this relies oncreativity. Within the wacky solutions are clever oneswaiting to be discovered.
Dont constrain yourself to one solution per cause andpay extra attention to those conditions you perceive tobe the norm.
Select the best solutions
Use your organisations solution criteria to the besteffect and avoid turning it into a form-filling exercise.For example, passing the problem on to someoneoutside the team is a sure-fire way of not getting itimplemented. Instead, use a solution assessmentprocess to prioritise similar solutions - which alsohelps with team buy-in.
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To implement the best solutions and actions, manage
a tracking system
Again, the process for this step is specific to individual
organisations. What matters is that you have aprocess. The biggest single reason for RCA failure iswhen the solutions arent implemented - which comesdown to a lack of process.
The most successful RCA programs have in-depthtracking systems in place to ensure solutions, actionitems and whole RCAs are tracked and shared withothers in the organisation. There are many way toaccomplish this using databases and tools which allowmanagers to view a company-wide RCA snapshotshowing outstanding actions and solutions that haveor have not been implemented. A good RCA softwaretool will also have the capacity to share resultseasily across the organisation and track changes andcomments relating to RCA charts, solutions or reports.
Share key findings
Youve put a lot of work into the investigation. Dothe work once, and use it many times. Whether youuse the cause and effect chart itself, the ExecutiveSummary, the photos and trends, or any other datacollected - there are many opportunities to put theinvestigations findings to work in other areas of thebusiness.
IMPROVE - SET STANDARDS FOR REPORTS
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ControlMEASURE THE SUCCESSOF YOUR PROGRAM
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CONTROL - MEASURE THE SUCCESS OF YOUR PROGRAM
To obtain ongoing support for your RCA
program, you need to provide the proof that it
works. You need quantifiable, demonstrable
measures of outcomes. There are a range of
tools and methods that you can use in this step.
Create a business process map
Having read through the report, create a process map to help visualise and controlthe outcomes of the RCA process. This is important - given the investment youvemade in people and resources to get this far. Have copies of the process mapavailable so that if the effectiveness of the program is challenged, you can easilyidentify which parts of the process are failing.
Create leader standard work
The RCA champion should undertake daily, weekly or monthly tasks to helpsupport the process; and the champions manager should have similar goals. Thisleader standard work leads to better performance in key players.
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Some great examples of this work include:
Action tracking system - this is a leading measureof your process. If the actions are gettingimplemented you can be more confident that
improvements are being made.
RCA process critiques - look at things like thenumber of actions versus conditions, with a goodchart exhibiting more conditions than actions (asthere are always a number of conditions in place forany given action to cause an effect).
Adherence to the business process map - this is alagging measure. By selecting areas of the processsupported by documentation, audit from a qualityperspective. Alternatively, talk with key players inthe process to assess their understanding of theirresponsibilities.
Performance against the triggers - another laggingmeasure. Use your CMMS system to determine
costs and frequency rates; or your safety andenvironmental systems for rates and severities.Cross reference with the number of RCAs heldand keep track of the performance of theseRCAs to highlight savings from a reduction inrecurring failures, near misses, safety incidents,and so on. You may even be able to tout theseaccomplishments at your annual performance
review or if you are interviewing for a new position.
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CONCLUSIONIn this ebook, we looked at 5 critical components in building asuccessful RCA program in your organisation: Define, Measure,Analyse, Improve, Control.
These components form the foundation of ongoing, iterativeimprovements that lead to the main game that is, reducing oreliminating unwanted incidents from your workplace.
Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control (DMAIC) is arecognised, data-driven improvement cycle that will help youimprove business processes, and is a proven framework for
application in many different settings.
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