THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 49/2023
The principle of using ‘barriers’ to prevent incidents and accidents and to reduce the consequences of incidents and accidents has been around for a long time. It is the essence of the prevention of major accidents. Unfortunately, as long as we have been using ‘barriers’ we have being finding ways to compromise these ‘barriers’ and […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 26/2023
Multiple barriers are often essential to ensure safety and security. This is particularly important where the systems are complex and the value of the people, environment and assets that are being protected are high. Sometimes the number of barriers in place creates an illusion that the probability of all barriers being breached is very low. That is the holes in […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 24/2023
The Swiss Cheese model was developed by James Reason at the University of Manchester and is often used in the prevention of major accidents. The model depicts a complex system where hazards are prevented from causing harm by a series of barriers. Each barrier has weaknesses, or holes – hence the similarity with Swiss cheese. […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 39/2022
Using solutions that others have used before you does not necessarily mean that it will work for you. Sometimes the circumstances are not quite the same, or maybe the others were just lucky and got away with it. Resultant derailment and diagram showing situation immediately before collision (Source: BNSF) Do you have contingencies prepared if the activity doesn’t go to plan? On November 13, 2021, about 2343 hrs, a freight train consisting of […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 07/2022
The drive for effective operations must be balanced with the drilling of robust wells. Welding on a pipeline What does ‘good’ look like to you in your operations, and is it the ‘good’ expected by others? We all strive to improve performance, to do better than we have done before, to set records both for professional pride and […]
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