Nobody Cares About Your Bearing Failures

This SnapCharT® will lead you to root causes, and good corrective actions, but there isn’t much motivation.

Nobody cares about a bearing seizure. Not your CEO, not your Directors, not the public.

The scope above is far too small. You are just investigating a bearing failure, not how it affects your organization.

Here is a better incident definition to prompt a deeper look at system redundancy, critical equipment, and organizational response. This green circle packs a much stronger punch.

An Incident in TapRooT® is the worst consequence of the hazard(s) contacting the target(s).

Nobody cares about a bearing failure.

Your decision-makers absolutely care to prevent 30 days of unplanned downtime.

Equipment failures are causal factors, part of a chain of failures that lead to much more severe outcomes.

Here is another:

The leak during install is the worst-thing-that-happened by definition, but we aren’t concerned with minor leaks below the EPA limit. Here is the true scenario:

This ignition accident was fully pre-gamed, just waiting for one operator to make a mistake. Those vulnerabilities were in the system, with a lot of opportunities to catch the defect.

“Near Misses” do not exist; the proper term is “Near Hit” or “Precursor Incident”.

Now that we know the real scope an investigation should cover, conducting that investigation shouldn’t take 6 months. More like 6 hours.

Learn everything you need to analyze precursor incidents with equipment issues and human errors at the next Equifactor® course.

Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting and TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis