SIST EN 62740:2015

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 62740:2015
01-september-2015
Analiza izvornih razlogov (RCA) (IEC 62740:2015)
Root cause analysis (RCA) (IEC 62740:2015)
Ursachenanalyse (IEC 62740:2015)
Analyse de cause initiale (RCA) (IEC 62740:2015)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62740:2015
ICS:
03.120.01 Kakovost na splošno Quality in general
29.020 Elektrotehnika na splošno Electrical engineering in
general
SIST EN 62740:2015 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 62740

NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM
April 2015
ICS 03.120.01

English Version
Root cause analysis (RCA)
(IEC 62740:2015)
Analyse de cause initiale (RCA) Ursachenanalyse
(IEC 62740:2015) (IEC 62740:2015)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2015-03-20. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC
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Foreword
The text of document 56/1590/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 62740, prepared by IEC/TC 56
"Dependability" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
EN 62740:2015.

The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be (dop) 2015-12-20
implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
(dow) 2018-03-20
• latest date by which the national
standards conflicting with the
document have to be withdrawn

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such
patent rights.

Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62740:2015 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards
indicated:

IEC 60300-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60300-1.
IEC 61025 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61025.
IEC 61649 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61649.
IEC 61163-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61163-1.
IEC 62508:2010 NOTE Harmonized as EN 62508:2010 (not modified).
ISO/IEC 31010:2009 NOTE Harmonized as EN 31010:2010 (not modified).

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Annex ZA
(normative)


Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications


The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.


NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.

NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.


Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60050 Series - International Electrotechnical Vocabulary - -
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 6
INTRODUCTION . 8
1 Scope . 9
2 Normative references . 9
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations . 9
3.1 Terms and definitions . 9
3.2 Abbreviations . 12
4 RCA – Overview . 12
5 The RCA process . 13
5.1 Overview. 13
5.2 Initiation . 14
5.3 Establishing facts . 15
5.4 Analysis . 17
5.4.1 Description . 17
5.4.2 The analysis team . 18
5.5 Validation . 19
5.6 Presentation of results . 19
6 Selection of techniques for analysing causes . 20
6.1 General . 20
6.2 Selection of analysis techniques . 20
6.3 Useful tools to assist RCA. 21
Annex A (informative) Summary and criteria of commonly used RCA techniques . 22
A.1 General . 22
A.2 RCA techniques . 22
A.3 Criteria . 23
Annex B (informative) RCA models . 26
B.1 General . 26
B.2 Barrier analysis . 26
B.2.1 Overview . 26
B.2.2 Strengths and limitations . 27
B.3 Reason’s model (Swiss cheese model) . 27
B.3.1 Overview . 27
B.3.2 Strengths and limitations . 28
B.4 Systems models . 28
B.5 Systems theoretic accident model and processes (STAMP) . 29
B.5.1 Overview . 29
B.5.2 Strengths and limitations . 29
Annex C (informative) Detailed description of RCA techniques . 30
C.1 General . 30
C.2 Events and causal factors (ECF) charting . 30
C.2.1 Overview . 30
C.2.2 Process . 31
C.2.3 Strengths and limitations . 31
C.3 Multilinear events sequencing (MES) and sequentially timed events plotting
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C.3.1 Overview . 32
C.3.2 Process . 32
C.3.3 Strengths and limitations . 33
C.4 The ‘why’ method . 35
C.4.1 Overview . 35
C.4.2 Process . 36
C.4.3 Strengths and limitations . 36
C.5 Causes tree method (CTM) . 36
C.5.1 Overview . 36
C.5.2 Process . 39
C.5.3 Strengths and limitations . 39
C.6 Why-because analysis (WBA) . 39
C.6.1 Overview . 39
C.6.2 Process . 42
C.6.3 Strengths and limitations . 42
C.7 Fault tree and success tree method . 42
C.7.1 Overview . 42
C.7.2 Process . 43
C.7.3 Strengths and limitations . 44
C.8 Fishbone or Ishikawa diagram . 44
C.8.1 Overview . 44
C.8.2 Process . 45
C.8.3 Strengths and limitations . 46
C.9 Safety through organizational learning (SOL) . 46
C.9.1 Overview . 46
C.9.2 Process . 46
C.9.3 Strengths and limitations . 47
C.10 Management oversight and risk tree (MORT) . 48
C.10.1 Overview . 48
C.10.2 Process . 48
C.10.3 Strengths and limitations . 48
C.11 AcciMaps . 49
C.11.1 Overview . 49
C.11.2 Process . 49
C.11.3 Strengths and limitations . 51
C.12 Tripod Beta . 51
C.12.1 Overview . 51
C.12.2 Process . 52
C.12.3 Strengths and limitations . 52
C.13 Causal analysis using STAMP (CAST) . 53
C.13.1 Overview . 53
C.13.2 Process . 56
C.13.3 Strengths and limitations . 57
Annex D (informative) Useful tools to assist root cause analysis (RCA) . 58
D.1 General . 58
D.2 Data mining and clustering techniques . 58
D.2.1 Overview . 58
D.2.2 Example 1 . 58
D.2.3 Example 2 . 58

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D.2.4 Example 3 . 59
Annex E (informative) Analysis of human performance . 60
E.1 General . 60
E.2 Analysis of human failure . 60
E.3 Technique for retrospective and predictive analysis of cognitive errors
(TRACEr) . 61
E.3.1 Overview . 61
E.3.2 Process . 62
E.4 Human factors analysis and classification scheme (HFACS) . 63
E.4.1 Overview . 63
E.4.2 Process . 63
Bibliography . 66

Figure 1 – RCA process . 14
Figure B.1 – Broken, ineffective and missing barriers causing the focus event . 26
Figure C.1 – Example of an ECF chart . 31
Figure C.2 – Data in an event building block . 32
Figure C.3 – Example of a time-actor matrix . 34
Figure C.4 – Example of a why tree . 35
Figure C.5 – Symbols and links used in CTM . 37
Figure C.6 – Example of a cause tree . 38
Figure C.7 – Example of a WBG . 41
Figure C.8 – Example of a fault tree during the analysis . 43
Figure C.9 – Example of a Fishbone diagram . 45
Figure C.10 – Example of a MORT diagram . 48
Figure C.11 – Example of an AcciMap . 50
Figure C.12 – Example of a Tripod Beta tree diagram . 52
Figure C.13 – Control structure for the water supply in a small town in Canada . 55
Figure C.14 – Example CAST causal analysis for the local Department of health . 56
Figure C.15 – Example CAST causal analysis for the local public utility operations
management . 56
Figure E.1 – Example of an TRACEr model [25] . 61
Figure E.2 – Generation of internal error modes . 62
Figure E.3 – Level 1: Unsafe acts . 64
Figure E.4 – Level 2: Preconditions . 64
Figure E.5 – Level 3: Supervision Issues . 65
Figure E.6 – Level 4: Organizational Issues . 65

Table 1 – Steps to RCA . 13
Table A.1 – Brief description of RCA techniques . 22
Table A.2 – Summary of RCA technique criteria . 23
Table A.3 – Attributes of the generic RCA techniques . 25
Table B.1 – Examples of barriers . 27
Table B.2 – Example of the barrier analysis worksheet . 27
Table C.1 – Direct and indirect causal factors . 47

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Table E.1 – External error modes. 63
Table E.2 – Psychological error mechanisms . 63

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FOREWORD
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Dependability.
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INTRODUCTION
Root cause analysis (RCA) refers to any systematic process that identifies factors that
contributed to a particular event of interest (focus event). RCA is performed with the
understanding that events are addressed by understanding the root causes, rather than the
immediately obvious symptoms. RCA aims to reveal root causes so that either the likelihood
of them occurring, or their impact if they do occur, can be changed.
An important distinction to make is that RCA is used to analyse a focus event that has
occurred and therefore analyses the past (a posteriori). However, knowledge of the root
causes of past events can lead to actions that generate improvements in the future.
This International Standard is intended to reflect current good practices in the conduct of
RCA. This standard is general in nature, so that it may give guidance across many industries
and situations. There may be industry specific standards in existence that establish preferred
methodologies for particular applications. If these standards are in harmony with this
publication, the industry standards will generally be sufficient.
This standard is a generic standard and does not explicitly address safety or accident
investigation although the methods described in this standard may be used for this purpose.

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1 Scope
This International Standard describes the basic principles of root cause analysis (RCA) and
specifies the steps that a process for RCA should include.
This standard identifies a number of attributes for RCA techniques which assist with the
selection of an appropriate technique. It describes each RCA technique and its relative
strengths and weaknesses.
RCA is used to analyse the root causes of focus events with both positive and negative
outcomes, but it is most commonly used for the analysis of failures and incidents. Causes for
such events can be varied in nature, including design processes and techniques,
organizational characteristics, human aspects and external events. RCA can be used for
investigating the causes of non-conformances in quality (and other) management systems as
well as for failure analysis, for example in maintenance or equipment testing.
RCA is used to analyse focus events that have occurred, therefore this standard only covers a
posteriori analyses. It is recognized that some of the RCA techniques with adaptation can be
used proactively in the design and development of items and for causal analysis during risk
assessment; however, this standard focuses on the analysis of events which have occurred.
The int
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