November 26, 2024 | Mark Paradies

Learn/Share High-Reliability Best Practices

High-Reliability Best Practices

What is a high-reliability organization?

What does it take to create a high-reliability organization?

What tools need to be applied to achieve high reliability?

What can stop high reliability?

All the topics above (and more) are part of the High-Reliability Best Practices Track at the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit, which will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, from October 1 to 3. If you are interested in high reliability or are trying to achieve high reliability at your facility, you should attend to learn and share high-reliability best practices to achieve best-in-class performance.

Want to know more? Then read on for details about the High-Reliability Best Practices Track and the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit…

Not Research: Real-World Experience & Lessons Learned

Mark Paradies, president of System Improvements, is organizing this track at the Summit. He has used his knowledge of high-reliability operations, observations of high-reliability organizations, and connections with people with real high-reliability experience to develop this track.

Why should you attend? Because the field of high reliability is filled with advice that one could call “suspect.” Advice is given by people who have never achieved high reliability or lived in a high-reliability organization. They don’t know the real cost of achieving high reliability. The:

long hours
attention to detail
focus on conservative decisions
avoiding normalization of deviation
management training and technical qualifications
total responsibility
ability to face the facts and make tough decisions

and all the other details that are required to achieve high reliability.

That’s why Mark gathered people with real-world, high-reliability experience to share their best practices and lessons learned. Best practices and lessons learned that you need to hear about.

Sessions in the High-Reliability Organization Best Practices Track

Here are the nine High-Reliability Organization Best Practices Track sessions:

Admiral Rickover’s Original High-Reliability Organization
Peer Reviews & Inspections to Achieve High Compliance Panel Discussion
Sharing Ideas to Achieve High Reliability/Performance Roundtable
Root Cause Analysis for High-Performance Organizations
Fatigue and Human Error
Procedure Writing and Use for High Reliability
Training Beyond the Mistake
Mistakes By Design
Lions, Tigers, and Bears, OH MY! Don’t Fear the Equifactor®

I will share the details about one of the tracks in this article. In future articles, I will share how the remaining sessions in the track can help you meet your goals.

Admiral Rickover’s Original High-Reliability Organization

This is the first session that I will share.

This session shares best practices and dispels myths about high-reliability culture. It provides a basis for any high-reliability program. Thus, attending this session is foundational to your high-reliability journey.

This session explains how Admiral Rickover:

created the high-reliability Nuclear Navy,
the standards he set,
the performance he achieved,

and how the Nuclear Navy’s performance has been maintained long after Admiral Rickover retired.

Not all the Nuclear Navy stories are success stories. Some improvements could be implemented. But if you understand the standards maintained by the Nuclear Navy, you will realize why governmentally required programs fall short and continue to allow process safety accidents.

Mark Paradies, the speaker for this session, was interviewed by Admiral Rickover, served on two nuclear-powered ships, was qualified as an “Engineer” by NAVSEA 08 (the headquarters Nuclear Navy organization), and has studied Rickover’s methods for decades.

More Summit Information

There is more to the Summit than just the sessions in a best practice track. First, there are five outstanding Keynote Speakers at the Summit. You will hear from these experts about their life experiences and how they can help you achieve world-class performance at your company.

The Keynote Speakers are another reason you need to be at the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit. What else should make attending the Summit high on your priorities for 2025? Read on…

Networking

One thing we have always emphasized at the Global TapRooT® Summit is meeting people, networking, and benchmarking your programs with others. We start this at the opening session and continue it throughout the Summit. Plus, we have learned to make networking fun.

Many say the Summit is worth attending just because of the new people you meet (adding to your network). In addition to networking, the Summit includes best practices for sharing and outstanding keynote speakers. This makes the experience very valuable for someone interested in performance improvement.

Pre-Summit Courses

This year, 11 pre-Summit Courses will be held on September 29-30 to help you learn even more ways to make your company’s performance world-class.

Alex teaching a TapRooT® ® Course / Training

What are the courses you can pick from to attend?

Click on the link above to learn more about a course that interests you. Register for a pre-Summit Course and the Summit and SAVE $300 OFF the course fee.

If you plan to attend the High-Realiability Organization Best Practices Track, I recommend attending the Stopping Human Error Course as a compliment to the information and best practices shared in that track.

Bring a Team

One way to get even more value from the Summit is to bring a team.

Face it. You can’t do everything yourself. You need a team to help your company achieve world-class performance. The Summit is an excellent place for your team to learn new ways to improve performance.

Having your team attend the Summit will help your team develop a game plan and a roadmap to achieve excellence. You can align the company’s improvement efforts and return to work motivated to put what you have learned to work.

Plus, when you bring a team, you will get discounts on courses and the Summit. The maximum discount is $900 OFF the combine course and Summit fee per attendee. See the discounts available below…

SUMMIT GUARANTEE

If you have any doubt about how worthwhile the Summit will be, let us remove all doubt with this GUARANTEE:

Attend the Global TapRooT® Summit. Go back to work and implement your roadmap to success. If you don’t save 10 times the cost of the Summit fee, let us know and return your Summit materials and we will refund 100% of the Summit registration fee. This guarantee shows how certain we are that you will learn valuable best practices to take your team’s performance—and that of your whole organization—to the next level.

That should make you feel comfortable about your decision to attend the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit.

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