THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 18/2026
Complacency is a feeling of calm self-satisfaction accompanied by an unawareness of actual dangers, deficiencies, or the need to improve. It is often characterized by a smug, uncritical contentment with the status quo, frequently leading to poor decision-making or failure to strive for better results. There is a road to complacency that is sometimes referred to as […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 12/2026
We really do want to believe that the safety of our operation is good, and that risks are being managed to an acceptable level. Sometimes we manage to convince ourselves by selecting the information that confirm the belief and ignore contradictory information. Once we have established our view, it takes a lot of effort to […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 14/2024
Athletes at the highest-level search for perfection in their training and preparation for major events. Many will have a focus on the 2024 Olympics in Paris and perhaps one opportunity to achieve the highest accolade, an Olympic Gold Medal. Whether their efforts are ‘good enough’ will only be revealed when they cross the finishing line. Some of the athletes […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 08/2024
Organisational cultures can change over time, with continued success, or apparent success, people may become complacent. In our Reflektion week 12/2018 we used a quote from Andy Grove founder and former CEO of Intel. ”Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive” The Apollo 1 Command Module after the fire Do you demand nothing short of perfection for how […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 15/2022
Often the successful outcome of a project or activity has little to do with the care and attention you put into the planning and execution and more to do with luck. Are you lucky, and if so, why are you lucky? A quote that is often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte is ‘I know he’s a good general […]
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Reflektion – Equinor experience transfer final
We normally send out our Weekly Reflektion on Sunday morning and hopefully all our subscribers are happy with this routine. We decided to send out this extraordinary Reflektion today as it relates to one of the concerns we have on Major Accident Prevention in the Norwegian Petroleum Industry, complacency. The Reflektion is a reaction to […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 07/2021
Learning from Major Accidents is the main focus for Reflekt, and we have used the Piper Alpha disaster 6th July 1988 in several Reflektions. This time we have the perspective of one of the survivors. If you had survived a major accident what would you recommend to prevent it happening again? Steve Rae is the […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 16 / 2020
In the week 13 Reflection we quoted from W.G. Carson in 1981, 7 years before the Piper Alpha disaster. These were prophetic words on the limitations of the UK regulations for the offshore industry. In the week 14 Reflektion we looked at some of the evidence presented to the Burgoyne Committee set up in the […]
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