Attend a Public TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course or Sponsor a Course at Your Site?

Do You Wonder About Which Course to Attend?

People often ask me:

“Is it best to go to a public TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course,
or is it better to have an on-site TapRooT® Course?”

Also, I am asked about which type of course – the 2-Day, Virtual 3-Day, 5-Day, or Equifactor® – they should attend.

Here are my suggestions for people wondering which course they should attend.

Public or On-Site TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course?

PUBLIC: If you only have a few folks who will be learning to solve problems with the TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis, I recommend attending one of our public courses. See the full schedule of courses.

Of course, you will find TapRooT® courses all over the world (and virtually for our 3-day and Equifactor®), so you will likely want to register for a course near you or in a destination you would like to visit. At the course, you will meet people from other companies who use TapRooT®, and you can compare notes and share best practices with them.

Additionally, if you want to “check out” TapRooT® Training before you decide if you want to implement it across your site or company, a public course is a great way to sample TapRooT® Training and then test the techniques by investigating your incidents.

ON-SITE: If you have approximately 10 or more people at your site who will benefit from TapRooT® Training, I recommend opting for on-site training. But you can also schedule our virtual courses to train people who are scattered at various locations. You will save money, and your folks won’t have to travel. Get a quote for a course at your site.

Which TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course Should We Attend?

First, you can see a list of all the courses we offer. I usually recommend the 5-Day TapRooT® Advanced Root Cause Analysis Team Leader Training, or the 2-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training, or the 3-Day Virtual TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course, or the Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting and TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course. See details about these courses below.

5-Day TapRooT® Training

The 5-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training Course is the most complete. It teaches techniques for simple investigations and major investigations. Participants get the most practice using all the TapRooT® techniques (attendees do a major exercise every day), and they get to practice using the TapRooT® VI Software (a trial subscription comes with the course).

What is covered in the course? CLICK HERE for the course outline:

The course materials include the book TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis for Major Investigations, a TapRooT® Root Cause Tree® Diagram, the Root Cause Tree® Dictionary, and the Corrective Action Helper® Guide, a $189.95 value, plus a Course Workbook.

You will also receive a course completion certificate.

2-Day TapRooT® Training

The 2-Day TapRooT® Training teaches the essential root cause analysis techniques required to investigate low- to medium-risk incidents. It is the fastest way to learn the essential techniques. CLICK HERE for the course outline.

COURSE OUTLINE

Day One

• Class Introduction
• TapRooT® System Overview
• SnapCharT® Basics – Gathering information
• SnapCharT® Exercise
• Define Causal Factors
• Intro to Root Cause Tree®
• Root Cause Tree® Exercise
• Root Cause Team Exercise
• Developing Fixes
• Corrective Action Exercise

Day Two

• Software Overview
• Generic Causes/Systemic Issues
• Causal Factors – Additional Practice
• Reporting/Management Presentation
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Final Exercise – Putting What You’ve Learned to Work

The course materials include the book Using the Essential TapRooT® Techniques to Investigate Low-to-Medium Risk Incidents, a TapRooT® Root Cause Tree® Diagram, the Root Cause Tree® Dictionary, the Corrective Action Helper® Guide (a $189.95 value), and a Course Workbook.

You will also receive a course completion certificate.

3-Day Virtual TapRooT® Training

The Virtual 3-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Course focuses on the essential TapRooT® Techniques needed to investigate low-to-medium risk incidents and precursor incidents that are in our 2-Day TapRooT® Course. Our 5-step investigation process simplifies the TapRooT® System to make the investigation efficient yet effective. The training focuses on understanding what happened, identifying Causal Factors, analyzing the Causal Factors using the Root Cause Tree® Diagram, and developing effective fixes using the Corrective Action Helper® Guide. CLICK HERE for the course outline.

This course is very interactive. Each student must have their own computer, with a webcam on during the class, allowing them to see the instructor and interact with the class. There will be continuous opportunities for participation, with plenty of breaks to keep everyone engaged. Team exercises will be completed throughout the course and will utilize cloud-based TapRooT® Software.

The course materials include the book Using the Essential TapRooT® Techniques to Investigate Low-to-Medium Risk Incidents, a TapRooT® Root Cause Tree® Diagram, the Root Cause Tree® Dictionary, and the Corrective Action Helper® Guide, a $189.95 value, plus a Course Workbook. These will be shipped prior to the course.

Upon completion of the course, attendees will receive a certificate of completion and a 90-day subscription to TapRooT® Personal Software, our dynamic online software that guides you through the TapRooT® Process quickly and efficiently.

Equifactor® Training

The Equifactor® Course can be taught in a virtual 3-Day format, a 2-Day live format, or an additional 1-Day course added on to our standard 2-Day TapRooT® Course. You will learn to use advanced equipment troubleshooting, and root cause analysis techniques to improve your site’s maintenance and equipment reliability. We recommend this course for maintenance managers and personnel, those interested in equipment reliability, and anyone who might investigate an equipment issue as part of a safety or quality problem. The course materials include the book Using Equifactor® Troubleshooting Tools and TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis to Improve Equipment Reliability, a TapRooT® Root Cause Tree® Diagram, the Root Cause Tree® Dictionary, and the Corrective Action Helper® Guide (a $129 value). The book includes a complete set of Heinz Bloch’s troubleshooting tables.

Other Courses

See our full course schedule for other TapRooT® training courses and webinars, including Trending, Proactive Improvement, Stopping Human Error, and Information Collection and Interviewing.

Training Guarantee

Have you ever seen a course with a simple money-back guarantee? Here is the TapRooT® Training Guarantee:

GUARANTEE

Attend this course, go back to work, and use what you have learned to analyze
accidents, incidents, near-misses/precursors, equipment failures, operating issues,
or quality problems. If you don’t find root causes that you previously
would have overlooked, and if you and your management don’t agree
that the corrective actions that you recommend are much more
effective, just return your course materials/software and
we will refund the entire course fee.

That’s it. It’s that simple. We are confident that our training will help you find and fix the causes of your problems, and hundreds of thousands of users worldwide have attended our training and agree.

Register Now!

Don’t wait. Public courses get booked early. Sign up for one of our public courses or get a course scheduled at your site to see how much TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training can help your company:

• Save lives,
• Stop injuries,
• Improve quality,
• Improve equipment reliability, and
• Boost operations performance.

We know you will be pleased.