Description

A facilitated incident investigation game for power generation. Four cases, seventy-five minutes each, run with a room, a whiteboard and no software.

Players spend a fixed budget of investigation hours on evidence they choose. They mark up a bowtie, build a five whys chain, and sign a causal finding. The game then scores them on coverage, barrier analysis, chain quality and causal accuracy, and shows them a blame index: the proportion of their signed causes that sit with an individual.

The argument this edition makes

An asset with an end date cannot justify a fix whose payback is longer than its life. That arithmetic is correct and it is being run on every ageing plant in the country tonight. In three of these four cases the barrier was removed or never built by people who were entirely right on the numbers they were given, and nothing in any decision framework asks what happens to the barrier while the answer is no.

The four cases

• The Last Overhaul (CU-E01) — Coal-fired generation. Mill deflagration under an approved bypass.
• Under Warranty (CU-E02) — Wind generation. A procedure the employer cannot change.
• Daylight (CU-E03) — Utility-scale solar. A DC arc, and a certificate for the other half of the plant.
• The Ones Who Stayed (CU-E04) — Coal-fired operations. A retention scheme nobody assessed as an exposure.

What is in the kit

Facilitator pack with a full key to every case, facilitator script, quick start, student guide, printable worksheets, worked examples, a participant certificate, and the promotional card and QR code for the free browser version. Twelve files.

The game itself is free and always will be. This kit is for running it as a facilitated session with a team, which is where the learning happens. Read the facilitator key the night before, not at the lectern, or you will telegraph.

There are ten editions

This kit is the power generation edition. There are ten in all and forty cases: general, mining, construction, onshore oil and gas, offshore oil and gas, transport and warehousing, agriculture, power generation, rail, and psychosocial. Every one is $340 and every one has a free browser version you can play first. See all ten.

Running it across more than one facilitator, or putting the student material on your own LMS, needs an in-house site licence at $1,800 per edition. Licensing more than one edition is quoted on enquiry.