THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 36/2024
Reduction in risk to an acceptable level presupposes that the potential threats and hazards associated with the operation or situation, are identified and then assessed. Often the risk assessment team uses previous experience to identify these threats and hazards, and limits themselves to these, after all what else could go wrong? Every so often a new hazard […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 35/2024
Reduction in risk requires a focus on reducing both the probability of an undesidered event and the consequences of the event once it has occurred. When assessing the consequences it is important not to just get hung up on the actual consequences from these events. It is important that the potential consequences are also considered. How do you assess […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 11/2023
The blowout on the Macondo well on 20th April 2010 led to the deaths of 11 persons and the loss of the drilling rig Transocean Deepwater Horizon. The clean-up of the oil spill and the various settlements and fines ultimate cost BP 61.6 billion dollars. BP, at that time one of the biggest companies in the […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 46/2022
Our days are full of alternatives and choices, and we need to decide which of these to follow. In our workplace we also make decisions and sometimes these can have significant consequences. We need to have a process that considers all the relevant information, the potential hazards, the uncertainties, and the consequences, before a decision […]
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