Wind Project O&M and Safety Conference 2018

Resilience Engineering and Causal Factor Investigation (Room Upper Grande Hall)

27 Feb 18
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Tracks: Incident & Hazard Review

Safety management today is focused on the proactive actions people and and organizations perform to create a safe workplace and a resilient ogranizational culture that strives for continuous improvement and effective change management. Proactive human performance improvement must be achieved through effective managment systems and tools to produce long term and effective performance. Please join us in exploring causal factor investigation, which is one tool used by resilient organizations to promote individual and organizational learning together as a group to conduct a casusal factor investigation. In this session you wil learn and perform an investigation with the following topics.

  • Anatomy of an Event
  • Error Precursors
  • Latent Conditions
  • Flawed Defenses
  • Causal Factors
  • Contributing Factors
  • Unrelated Negative Conditions