Root Cause / Cause Analysis

WD Associates provides highly experienced industry personnel to perform Root Cause / Cause Analysis services for significant events that have occurred at your facility. In addition, WD performs independent reviews and provides oversight and mentoring of the development and implementation of effective actions at your facility to aid in ensuring performance problems and gaps are identified before they result in a loss of production, regulatory compliance issues or personnel injuries.

Root Cause / Cause Analysis services include:

Corrective Action Program (CAP) development and Implementation

Root Cause Analysis Team support

Independent Reviews of Cause Analysis

Major equipment failures investigations

Severe personnel injury/fatality investigations

Training and Mentoring leaders in Performance Improvement and CAP

Assessments / Inspection Support

WD Associates provides highly experienced industry personnel to assist clients in performing assessments/inspections at your facility; we also perform independent reviews of assessments/inspections as requested. In addition, WD develop assessment programs to enable clients in identifying performance gaps and operational vulnerabilities at your facility.

Assessments / Inspection Support services include:

CAP Program Effectiveness Assessments

Training Program Assessments

Safety Program Assessments

NRC IP 95001/95002/95003 Support

NERC Assessment support

NERC Cold Weather Assessments

Vegetation management safety event analysis

Plant Operational Performance & Material Condition Assessments

Performance Improvement Mentoring and Support

WD Associates provides highly experienced personnel to help clients become more effective in solving problems ranging from targeting fixes for specific problems to overall integrated organizational improvements.

Performance Improvement / Mentoring and Support services include:

Development and implementation of continuous improvement activities

Support for analysis and resolution of performance gaps

Performance Assessment Mentoring and Support

Analysis of Safety Culture issues

Organizational Effectiveness Assessments