THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 12/2025
Welcome to Reflekt’s Breakfast Seminar, Wednesday 26th March 2025 0800 to 1000 at the Quality Pond Hotel in Forus. The main theme for Havtil in 2025 is Artificial Intelligence is also a risk factor. This theme and the depiction of the ‘black box’ in the Havtil film is the inspiration for our next breakfast seminar. ‘The black box’, can […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 51/2024
Thank you to the people that attended our Breakfast seminar on 27thNovember and for the feedback we received. We plan to hold a Teams version on Wednesday 18th December 0800 hrs. Let us know if you would like to participate and let your colleagues know. In an industrial context, culture refers to the shared values, beliefs, behaviours, and […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 39/2024
The culture at your facility may be the result of many years hard work to ensure people display the right behaviours and that safety standards are maintained. The culture may be the result of a passive approach where people themselves have had to find out how they can work safely. In some cases the culture reflects a […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 33/2024
Getting the basics right in any activity or task is an all encompassing intention that is easy to state, important to implement, however often difficult to put into practice. Then a major accident occurs, the follies are exposed and the outrage drives change, despite some entrenched resistance. It is unfortunate that so many people need to […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 20/2024
Leading questions are often used to communicate incorrect information and misrepresent a situation. They are also used to suggest an answer that is desired, allowing the questioner to prevent any contradiction of an already established view, or avoid taking actions that may be required. Is your bad news, bad news? Thanks to Morten Andreassen in Presight Solutions AS for relating a conversation he […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 46/2023
Safety culture is often a point on the agenda at management meetings. Many international companies have a standardised approach to the way they try to build a good safety culture, however they often experience challenges when an approach that functions, for example, in a western European country doesn’t function in a country in South-east Asia. This may be due to […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 41/2022
Risk assessments are used extensively in decision making and it is important one understands the dynamics taking place in the assessment process. Obviously, we would expect the participants in the risk assessment process to be objective, the data accurate and the analysis of the data thorough and unambiguous. In the real work this may not […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 40/2022
Risk assessments are a key part of ensuring that any activity or project can be carried out safely. Risk assessments can be major activities with multiple participants perhaps over several days. Risk assessments can also be short and sweet and consist of a quick review before the job gets done. What are the factors that influence whether […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 31/2022
The culture of a company is set by the management and what the management decides to focus on and not to focus on. When the company is involved in the manufacturer of aircraft or any other activity that can lead to Major Accidents, safetyshould of course be a management focus, some may say the primary […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 22/2022
Continuous improvement is an important factor in ensuring safe and efficient operations and pre-supposes learning and a learning process. However, not all cultures are so receptive to innovation and new thinking to benefit from learning. Do you have a culture that encourages learning or discourages learning? We would like to invite you to a ‘Listen and Reflekt’ lunchtime […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 41/2021
As systems become more complicated and control systems more sophisticated, Human-Machine Interface (HMI) is becoming increasingly important. Do you have good control of HMI in your operation? China Airlines flight 140, flying from Taiwan, was making its approach to Nagoya Airport in Japan on 26th April 1994. The first officer was flying the aircraft and he was experiencing problems pushing the nose down to […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 39/2021
We often talk about the importance of culture in influencing the behaviours of people in an organisation. But do we really understand how the culture has an affect and what aspects of the culture are actually influencing people? Do you understand how culture influences people in your organization? One of our Reflektions in April 2019 […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 31/2021
What is the worst Major Accident we have come across? What criteria should we use to judge the many Major Accidents that we have studied? The consequences in the terms of loss of life, impact on the environment or financial loss? In our view it is more appropriate to judge based on the failure of […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 25/2021
The saying ‘beware of Greeks bearing gifts’ is normally used to refer to an act of charity that masks a hidden destructive or hostile agenda. The saying comes from Greek mythology andthe Trojan War, in which the Greeks, led by Agamemnon, attempted to rescue Helen, who had been taken to Troy after falling in love […]
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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 30 / 2020
I studied at Strathclyde University and every day, during the term, from 1977 to 1981, I walked from Central Station across George Square towards the University. I passed by sandstone buildings blackened by the soot of the industrial city unaware of the Georgian and Victorian architecture. I walked past the City Chambers without realizing that […]
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