Trending for the PROACT Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Database
Included in your PROACT® ERM or PROACTOnDemand Subscription.

Searching for Trends from Your PROACT® RCA Database

How well is your RCA effort performing?

Many cannot answer this question for various reasons. Some of these reasons are related to the variability in their RCA approach, variability in the definition of success for their RCA effort and inability to correlate results from completed RCA’s. The PROACT Trending Manager was designed to allow analysts like you the ability to conduct common cause analyses across the PROACT database. So now you can seek out trends related to your RCA performance..

Wouldn't it be helpful to know that you could see a 25% increase
in training related causes in our RCA’s over the past year?

 

After questions are answered - the Analyst simply selects View Trending Results Results are provided in short, concise & professional reports View details, see bar & line graphs Drill down to as much detail on a given point as you'd like Directly launch into a specific analysis if desired

Easy to Define Trending Criteria:

The PROACT Trending Manager will ask the analysts a series of seven (7) basic questions that will prepare the specific parameters of the trend they desire to see.

For instance in one analysis you might have identified a Latent Root Cause as “No Training Provided in Proper Alignment Practices”. In another analysis, independent of the one above, a Latent Root Cause may have been entered as “Improper Alignment Education”. If you tried to trend a database for causes related to training, you may not pick up these as the search may be on the words “misalignment training” and other words like “education”, “OJT” and the like would not be included.
However, if you had a cause category for Technology and/or Training Related, then you could assign these specific causes such a category label. Now if you trend this information, you would find all causes labeled as being related to Training on a certain population of analyses and you would be able to see if there is a trend over a defined period of time.

Benefits of Trending:

The PROACT Trending Manager allows you to easily report to management the trends you are seeing as a result of your RCA implementations. Often times when using form-based or paper-based systems it is only possible to view one analysis at a time. When using the PROACT Trending Manager you are able to define, create and report trends across your RCA database. Proving such trends allows you to identify proactive opportunities for future RCA’s as well as prove the ones you have completed are having a positive impact on your companies bottom-line.

Trending as a Systematic Approach:

The PROACT Trending Manager™ is an integral part of the PROACT ERM System. It allows us to view our RCA efforts as a system and not just as individual tasks. Trending helps to provide justification of the RCA effort to assist with getting more funding and resources to expand our successful efforts.