Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in the Laboratory - Addressing Non-Conformances
Speaker: Michael H. Brodsky
Speaker Designation: President, Brodsky Consultants
Speaker: Michael H. Brodsky
Speaker Designation: President, Brodsky Consultants
This RCA webinar will define a specific set of steps and associated tools that you can use to determine the primary cause of non-conformance in your laboratory. You will learn to determine what happened, why it happened and how to reduce the likelihood of that non-conformance happening again. Learn to determine the Root Cause origin of a problem. You will learn a specific set of steps, with associated tools, to find the primary cause of the problem, so that you can:
RCA assumes that systems and events are interrelated. An action in one area triggers an action in another, and another, and so on. By tracing back these actions, you can discover where the problem started and how it grew into the symptom you’re now facing.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a popular and often-used technique that helps people answer the question of why the non-conformance occurred in the first place.
If you only fix the symptoms – what you see on the surface – the problem will almost certainly happen again, which will lead you to fix it, again, and again, and again.
If instead, you look deeper to figure out why the non-conformance is occurring, you can fix the underlying systems and processes that caused it. Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a popular and often-used technique that helps people answer the question of why the non-conformance occurred in the first place.
Learn to determine the Root Cause origin of a problem.
You will learn a specific set of steps, with associated tools, to find the primary cause of the problem, so that you can:
Michael Brodsky has been an Environmental Microbiologist for more than 50 years. After graduating from the University of Toronto, School of Hygiene in 1972, he joined the Laboratory Services Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Health as a Research Scientist. In 1982, Michael accepted the position of Chief, Environmental Microbiology, which he held until he changed his career path in March of 1999.
He is currently operating as Brodsky Consultants, an independent microbiological consultant in food and water safety, laboratory accreditation and quality assurance. He is a Past President of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), the Ontario Food Protection Association (OFPA) and AOAC International. In 2018 he was re-appointed to the AOAC Board of Directors for a one-year term. He served as Co-Chair for the AOAC Expert Review Committee for Microbiology, as a scientific reviewer in Microbiology for the AOAC Official Methods of Analysis and the AOAC Research Institute, as a reviewer for Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater and as a chapter editor on QA for the Compendium of Methods in Microbiology. He was a lead auditor and technical assessor in microbiology for the Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation (CALA) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC).
