Root Cause Analysis (RCA) using Tripod Beta Method

Tripod Beta is a renowned method for incident analysis leading to proactive process control measures. It does not just focus on the immediate, human, causes of the incident, but identifies the structural flaws that allowed the incident in question to occur. The Investigation framework clarifies unknowns and uncertainties and thus leads to insights. Underlying causes are identified and lead to well considered conclusions and management actions, strengthening the organization's sustainability as well as business and safety performance. Scientific research at Leiden (NL) and Manchester (UK) Universities forms the backbone of the Tripod Theory. Many years of applied research and extensive practical use have made the matured Tripod theory the best solution for both proactive and reactive risk management. Many companies and other large organizations have gained the benefits of using the Tripod methodology, namely a considerable, measurable reduction in incident rates and a firm grip on risks. In the Tripod Beta methodology, the investigation process goes hand-in-hand with the analysis process. The course is accredited by the Stitching Tripod Foundation and Energy Institute, the custodians of the Tripod Beta methodology.

This Root Cause Analysis (RCA) using tripod beta method training course will highlight:

• What can go wrong in our processes,
• Identify risks and how they are assessed,
• What preventative and corrective measures are in place to prevent incidents from happening?
• Utilizing applicable compliance frameworks and assessing process in a barrier based manner
• Monitoring and measuring how well your control measures are performing
• How to gather the adequate evidences to identify human and organizational failings?
• Incident Investigation as per Tripod Beta Methodology
• Structured way of incident/accident investigation and analysis
• Benefits of using Tripod Beta method,
• Software used as support for the Tripod Beta Incident Investigation
• How to create actual incident/accident investigation database and use it for developing optimal mitigation measures

• Hands-on training rather than theoretic learning (examples based on real life industry cases).
• Active participation in the training-participants actually conduct the analysis of the incidents using the methodology.
• Interactive training, using the video materials, simulations and re-enactments of actual incidents.

This Root Cause Analysis (RCA) using tripod beta method training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit: 

• Risk Managers
• HSE Managers and HSE Advisors
• Process safety officers
• Auditors
• Petroleum Engineers
• Mining Engineers
• Financial Analysts
• Drilling Engineers
• Incident Investigators
• Safety Managers
• Safety Engineers
• Safety Specialists
• Operations and Support Staffs
• Production Managers
• Project Managers
• Finance Managers
• Supply Chain Managers
• Logistics Managers
• Quality improvement personnel

Day 1: Understanding Hazards and Risks

• Risk Management and ISO31000

• Risk terminology

• Barrier based risk management and relation to HAZOP, HAZID, Risk Assessment Matrix

• BowTie analysis in 8 steps

• Benefits of BowTie risk analysis

• (ISO 17776:2000) to BowTies

• Exercise: Introduction to Software for Incident Investigation

Day 2: Accident/Incident Investigation and Tripod Beta Principles

• Organization’s defenses between a source of harm and an undesirable outcome as a series of barriers, represented by layers of Swiss cheese,

• What is Sequentially Timed Event Plotting (STEP),

• The four key stages in a Tripod Beta investigation,

• Defining Event, Agent and Object,

• Telling the story through the core diagram,

• Exercise: Defining STEP for example incident

Day 3: Barriers, Preconditions and Underlying Causes and Basic Risk Factors

• Barrier identification and how they are associated with an incident in a systematic and thorough manner.

• Four possible states of a barrier and their use within a Tripod Beta tree.

• Human Errors and their link to the Immediate Causes,

• Preconditions to immediate causes, definition and position within a Tripod Beta Tree,

• Underlying causes, definition and position within a Tripod Beta Tree,

• Causation path, definition and presentation within a Tripod Beta Tree,

• Basic Risk Factors in Business process

• Exercise: Creating a Tripod Beta tree for example incident using the software

Day 4: Remedial Actions, Reporting, Tree Logic

• Identify the nodes on a Tripod Beta tree where remedial action should be applied,

• Haddon's hierarchy of barrier effectiveness.

• The cost vs. benefit of various types of barriers.

• Report layout and format.

• Investigation of example incident

• The ways in which lessons learnt may be communicated throughout the Company

• Exercise: Creating a final report

Day 5: Full Investigation of Selected Incident and TEST

• Introduction to the incident

• Reconstruction of the incident

• Simulation of the incident

• Reporting

• TEST

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