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The blog has been shutdown by government sometime ago... Now we have it back! So let continue blogging...

Accident and Incident Deployment at workplace

I got few colleagues who working in SHE function find my accident and incident deployment as an interesting work. They are using as a model example, I like to share it here too in case the visitor of this blog interested in.

Accident+and+Incident+Deployment.xlsx

5S Audit Checklist

I have been away from this blog that long enough. I just like to share one of the tool that I have developed in 5S auditing. Please follow the link below and give the comment if it is useful or not, so that the other visitor can follow.

5S Audit Checklist

Eight Steps to Changes (2)

I had posted sometime ago about 8 Steps to Transforming Organization, a model develop by Prof. John P. Kotter. This model is still very popular among those who involving in change management. Lately, on Havard Business Review website there is a poll asking "which step is the most challenging one for your organization?". This morning result show as seen below:

Root Cause Failure Analysis

It is probably better be known as 5why analysis. Basic tool for solving very basic problem yet I notice that we are not using correctly. Why 5whys? The answer is most of the time we can reach the root cause to the problem at the 5th why. Well... my personal experience is that I rarely arrive at the 5th to see the root causes, I mean either before or later. OK, that is not really a big deal!

Back to my statement "not quite correctly use". My point here is, the key is not really asking "why". For me the most impotance is how you are able to come to the question "why"! Sound confusing, I guess. But seriously, I found the trick is not go straight to the "why". Life would be easier to ask "why" five times and get to the root cause. BUT it is not! 5whys is a very basic tool but it is not so simple. I try to attach here a presentation I use for the training but believe 5whys skill can not just train in the classroom. However, it is part of skill development we must provide some theory on it. I hope I will be able to attach some examples very soon!

Root Causes Failure Analysis

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The link below could lead you to pratical example of simple 5whys analysis. 

Problem: "Alarm clock did not work"

You can always try to test you ability in performing this simple problem of "alarm clock did not work". What you can do is to rearrange the "causes" into a real 5whys table. Special thanks to my colleague, Catherine, for her contribution to this exercise. Wish to compare your result with ours? Just send it back what you think should be the logic and we will send back ours.