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The Role of Human Error
in Root Cause Analysis
Understanding
Human Behavior
It is important for analysts to have a good understanding of human behavior
when investigating an undesirable outcome. Understanding human behavior will
help the analyst formulate interview questions. These questions will allow dis-
cussion by the employees about subjects that will give insight into the cultural
norms present in the organization that could be contributing factors to the event
being analyzed.
Each department in any facility has its own way of accomplishing work (some depart-
ments’ adopted work rules are productive and safe and some are pote ...