Root Cause Analysis (RCA) | AIChE

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

A formal investigation method that attempts to identify and address the management system failures that led to an incident. These root causes often are the causes, or potential causes, of other seemingly unrelated incidents. Identifies the underlying reasons the event was allowed to occur so that workable corrective actions can be implemented to help prevent recurrence of the event (or occurrence of similar events).

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