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French to English translations [Non-PRO] Tech/Engineering - Safety / Health and safety procedure | |||||||
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4 +4 | Root causes/ factors |
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Root causes/ factors Explanation: This is the term used to distinguish between differnet types of causes in "accident analysis" bowtie or map. Root cause analysis (RCA) is a method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems.[1] A factor is considered a root cause if removal thereof from the problem-fault-sequence prevents the final undesirable event from recurring; whereas a causal factor is one that affects an event's outcome, but is not a root cause. Though removing a causal factor can benefit an outcome, it does not prevent its recurrence within certainty. For example, imagine a fictional segment of students who received poor testing scores. After initial investigation, it was verified that the students taking tests in the final period of the school day resulted in lower scores. Further investigation revealed that late in the day, the students lacked ability to focus. Even further investigation revealed that the reason for the lack of focus was hunger. So, the root cause of the poor testing scores was hunger, remedied by moving the testing time to soon after lunch. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 18 mins (2016-05-18 19:52:03 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.thinkreliability.com/Root-Cause-Analysis-CM-Basic... Example sentence(s):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_cause_analysis Reference: http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/root-cause-analysis/overv... |
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