Ideas to Achieve High Reliability

Are You Ready for High Reliability?

Achieving High Reliability isn’t easy. Take it from someone who has been there – done that.

If you want to achieve high reliability, you should consider attending the High-Reliability Best Practices Track at the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit, in Knoxville, Tennessee, from October 1 to 3.

Why? To learn and share high-reliability best practices to help your company achieve best-in-class performance.

Want to know more? Then read on for details about the High-Reliability Best Practices Track and the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit…

Real-World Experience & Lessons Learned

I’m Mark Paradies, president of System Improvements, organizing High-Reliability Best Practices Track at the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit. My background includes high-reliability operations in the Nuclear Navy, observations of high-reliability organizations, and connections with people with real high-reliability experience. I used that experience and those connections to develop this track.

Why should you attend? This is the first time we have decided to share these secrets of high reliability with our readers. And you want real lessons from people who have achieved high reliability—people like those pictured below, who will be sharing their experiences—both good and bad.

You don’t want advice from people who have never achieved high reliability or lived in a high-reliability organization. People who don’t know the real cost of achieving high reliability. The:

• long hours
• attention to detail
• focus on conservative decisions
• avoiding normalization of deviation
• management training and technical qualifications
• total responsibility
• ability to face the facts and make tough decisions

and all the other details that are required to achieve high reliability.

That’s why I gathered the people above with real-world, high-reliability experience to share their best practices and lessons learned—the best practices and lessons you need.

High-Reliability Organization Best Practices Track Sessions

Here are the nine High-Reliability Organization Best Practices Track sessions:

• Admiral Rickover’s Original High-Reliability Organization
• Procedure Writing and Use for High Reliability
• Training Beyond the Mistake
• Mistakes By Design
• Lions, Tigers, and Bears, OH MY! Don’t Fear the Equifactor®
• Peer Reviews & Inspections to Achieve High Compliance Panel Discussion
• Sharing Ideas to Achieve High Reliability/Performance Roundtable
• Root Cause Analysis for High-Performance Organizations
• Fatigue and Human Error

Click on the links above for more information about each session. I will share the details about one of the sessions in this article.

Procedure Writing and Use for High Reliability

Have you ever noticed how many major accidents have at least one cause related to procedures either not being used or being used improperly? High-reliability organizations (nuclear plants, commercial aviation, and nuclear weapons maintenance are three examples) have accurate, well-written procedures and insist that people in the field use them.

Are your procedures written for high reliability? Or are your procedures as clear as mud?

Clear, usable procedures are important to achieve high reliability. Anyone involved in the procedure writing process or interested in high reliability should be trained on procedure writing and use best practices. This session will focus on procedure writing best practices from high-reliability organizations.

If you want to improve future performance and achieve high reliability, you should consider attending this session!

More Summit Information

There is more to the Summit than just the sessions in a best practice track. First, there are five outstanding Keynote Speakers at the Summit. You will hear from these experts about their life experiences and how they can help you achieve world-class performance at your company.

The Keynote Speakers are another reason you need to be at the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit. What else should make attending the Summit high on your priorities for 2025? Read on…

Networking

One thing we have always emphasized at the Global TapRooT® Summit is meeting people, networking, and benchmarking your programs with others. We start this at the opening session and continue it throughout the Summit. Plus, we have learned to make networking fun. 

Many say the Summit is worth attending just because of the new people you meet (adding to your network). In addition to networking, the Summit includes best practices for sharing and outstanding keynote speakers. This makes the experience very valuable for someone interested in performance improvement.

Pre-Summit Courses

This year, 11 pre-Summit Courses will be held on September 29-30 to help you learn even more ways to make your company’s performance world-class. 

What are the courses you can pick from to attend?

• Analyzing and Adjusting Safety Culture
• 2-Day Advanced Communications/Presentations Skills
• The Best Ways to Use Data to Improve Performance
• 2-Day TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis Training
• 2-Day Equifactor® Equipment Troubleshooting & TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis
• TapRooT® Advanced Case Study Workshop
• Stopping Human Error
• TapRooT® Software Training
• Auditing & Proactive Improvement Using TapRooT® RCA
• Interviewing & Evidence Collection
• 2-Day Developing an Incident Command System

Click on the link above to learn more about a course that interests you. Register for a pre-Summit Course and the Summit and SAVE $300 OFF the course fee.

If you plan to attend the High-Realiability Organization Best Practices Track, I recommend attending the Stopping Human Error Course as a compliment to the information and best practices shared in that track.

Bring a Team

One way to get even more value from the Summit is to bring a team. 

Face it. You can’t do everything yourself. You need a team to help your company achieve world-class performance. The Summit is an excellent place for your team to learn new ways to improve performance. 

Having your team attend the Summit will help your team develop a game plan and a roadmap to achieve excellence. You can align the company’s improvement efforts and return to work motivated to put what you have learned to work.

Plus, when you bring a team, you will get discounts on courses and the Summit. The maximum discount is $900 OFF the combine course and Summit fee per attendee. See the discounts available below…

SUMMIT GUARANTEE

If you have any doubt about how worthwhile the Summit will be, let us remove all doubt with this GUARANTEE:

Attend the Global TapRooT® Summit. Go back to work and implement your roadmap to success. If you don’t save 10 times the cost of the Summit fee, let us know and return your Summit materials and we will refund 100% of the Summit registration fee. This guarantee shows how certain we are that you will learn valuable best practices to take your team’s performance—and that of your whole organization—to the next level.

That should make you feel comfortable about your decision to attend the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit.

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