Ran across this nice little article about root cause analysis with your kids: When Kids Start Doing Root Cause Analysis.
With Incident Check, we focus on the root cause analysis and provide a completely customizable set of factors that are set up by your safety professional.
We start with a basic set, but you are free to remove all of them in order to set things up to work best with your company. Our initial set consists of Immediate and Root Causes. Under Immediate causes we have Unsafe Conditions and Unsafe Practices, under Root Causes we have Systemic Factors, Peronal factors, and Job factors. We feel this is a very good base for people to use to really get at what is important – figuring out the underlying reasons for incidents and doing our best to eliminate them.
This is highlighted in our Pareto Charts that show the top 80% of factors leading to incidents, near misses, or hazards. And we find that these charts become much more valuable over time.