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January 11, 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
When: Jan 11, 2023 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time
Presentation Title: “How to Investigate Safety Incidents of Low, Moderate and High Complexity and Significance Using Causal Analysis”
Duration: 1 hour, ~ 45 minutes presentation with ~15 minute Q&A
Presentation Method: Virtual (Zoom) – Free Registration – Click here to register
*0.1 CEU’s available*
Speaker Name: Rob De La Espriella, BlueDragon HCA Master Practitioner
Brief Presentation Summary:
Rob De La Espriella, a leading expert in root cause analysis and master practitioner, will present his approach to investigating industrial safety incidents of all levels of significance and complexity. Rob has designed a lean, agile and scalable methodology that specifically addresses at-risk behaviors and the error-likely situations caused by our modern socio-technical working environments. This modern approach to getting to the deepest-seated causes of recurring problems has been adopted by the US National Labs, the Nuclear Weapons Complex and major companies such as Westinghouse.
Speaker Biography:
Rob De La Espriella is a former US Navy nuclear submarine officer and the founder/CEO of DLE Technical Services, LLC (DLE). Rob is one of the foremost experts in solving complex human-centric problems in modern operating environments, with over 30 years of experience in leading and facilitating hundreds of formal investigations, root cause evaluations, audits, assessments, and other complex problem-solving efforts at commercial nuclear power plants, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the DOE, and the US Department of Defense (DOD).
Rob became a subject matter expert in root cause analysis in 1988, as a member of the Florida Power & Light team that won the Deming Prize from Japan in 1989, the first company in the world outside of Japan to win the award. He completed formal training in numerous problem-solving methods including Kepner Tregoe, Management Oversight Risk Tree (MORT), TapRoot, Dr. Corcoran’s Phoenix Method, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations’ (INPO) Human Performance Evaluation System (HPES), Total Quality Management (TQM), and Lean/Six Sigma. Rob is also a certified Kaizen Team Leader.
In 2018, Rob drew on over 30 years of practice to develop the BlueDragon Hyper-Integrated Causal Analysis (HCA®) Methodology, a major advancement in the way investigations are conducted. HCA is a lean, agile, efficient and most effective approach to solving complex, human-centric problems, and is designed to address the challenges found in modern, socio-technical work environments. HCA replaces previous methods such as the 5-whys and the fishbone, which were developed in the last century.
Rob is leading the charge in bringing problem-solving to the 21st century. Since 2010, Rob has trained close to 2000 professionals, and BlueDragon HCA has been adopted as the preferred problem-solving methodology by the US National Labs and the nuclear weapons complex, and by companies such as the Westinghouse Electric Company (Nuclear Division).