J.D. Solomon
Applying ISO 31000 to PFAS and USEPA Risk Assessments
PFAS is an issue filled with complexity, difficulty, and uncertainty. The good news is that the USEPA does a good job with technical...
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J.D. Solomon
- Dec 16, 2022
Three Things To Avoid When Performing An Environmental Root Cause Analysis
Root cause analysis (RCA) is a collective term that describes a wide range of approaches, tools, and techniques used to uncover the...
J.D. Solomon
- Oct 25, 2022
Can Understanding Risk Appetite Help a Project Manager's Career?
New project managers and young professionals often struggle with the concept of risk appetite and how it impacts decision making. The...
J.D. Solomon
- Oct 11, 2022
How to Overcome the Fear of Using the Wrong Probability Distribution
Probability Distributions The probability density function (PDF) is applied to continuous random variables, whereas the probability...
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- Oct 10, 2022
How to Evaluate Human Error Is Coming to SMRP in Raleigh
The session is titled "How Baseball Teaches Us Everything We Need to Know About Human Error" and is scheduled for Wednesday, October 19,...
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- Oct 9, 2022
SMRP, Fabulous Facilitation Workshop Coming to Raleigh on Oct 17
Facilitation is an essential skill for technical professionals working in group environments. Maintenance and reliability education does...
J.D. Solomon
- Sep 26, 2022
Three Solutions for Establishing Useful Probability Distributions
Monte Carlo simulations are the best approach for assessing uncertainty for future infrastructure and facilities funding requirements....
J.D. Solomon
- Jul 11, 2022
What the New USEPA Health Advisory Levels for PFAS Means to You
On June 15, 2022, US EPA reduced the current Health Advisory Levels (HALs) of 70 parts per trillion for PFOA and PFOS (combined) to 0.004...
J.D. Solomon
- Mar 28, 2022
Five Ways to More Effectively Facilitate Block Diagrams
This article discusses five ways to effectively facilitate block diagrams by conducting pre-session exchanges, asking powerful questions,...
J.D. Solomon
- Mar 21, 2022
Five Ways to More Effectively Facilitate Tree Diagrams
This article discusses five ways to effectively facilitate tree diagrams by conducting pre-session exchanges, asking powerful questions,...
J.D. Solomon
- Mar 4, 2022
Do You Share the Same Concerns about the American Rescue Plan Act as Water Utility Leaders?
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is now in full swing as states start to divide the monies to their units of local government. Two...
J.D. Solomon
- Feb 8, 2022
Improving System Performance Starts with a Criticality Analysis
Criticality is a measure of the relative importance of something to an organization's mission or objectives. I prefer using critical and...
J.D. Solomon
- Jan 3, 2022
Facilitation, Soft and Hard
There is a lot to unpack in the standard definition of facilitation. "A facilitated session is a highly structured meeting in which the...
J.D. Solomon
- Dec 16, 2021
Communicating with FINESSE: Getting the Boss’s Boss to Understand
The critical issue is a technical professional's inability to communicate to decision makers in the face of complexity and uncertainty. ...
J.D. Solomon
- Nov 23, 2021
Two Ways to Improve Reliability and Ease Co-Worker Understanding
Fault Avoidance and Fault Tolerance are the two ways to improve reliability. By reliability, I mean the probability that a designed...
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- Nov 21, 2021
"Communicating to Decision Makers" Workshop Once Again at RAMS 2022
JD Solomon will provide his 8-hour workshop at the 68th International Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) in Tuscon,...
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- Nov 3, 2021
ASQ Richmond: Improving Risk Matrices
"What's Wrong With Risk Matrices & How To Improve Them" will be JD Solomon’s topic at next Tuesday’s (November 9) ASQ-Richmond chapter...
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- Oct 15, 2021
JD Solomon's Controversial Comments On Root Cause Analysis
JD Solomon’s comments at the 2021 North American Asset Management Conference were not what the audience expected. The topic was Root...
J.D. Solomon
- Oct 12, 2021
Fewer Surprises And More Uptime
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is an essential element in any asset management program because a structured approach provides the best...
J.D. Solomon
- Sep 6, 2020
The Top Five Sites For Evaluating Your Hurricane Risks
Understanding your risks relative to an uncertain future usually involves some type of model.
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