What it is: The fishbone diagram is a tool to organize ideas and theories about what causes a problem or an event. How it works: Teams work together to brainstorm and identify potential causes and ...

Tools such as the fishbone diagram and the 5 Whys technique can help worksite incident investigations identify the root causes of workplace accidents and improve safety protocols.

As you can see in Figure 1, fishbone diagrams are called fishbone diagrams because, well, they look like fishbones. Its official name, however, is an Ishikawa diagram, named after its creator ...