THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 34/2022
When a design weakness has been identified, compensating measures have to be agreed and implemented. The tail elevators showing the right one locked down in the wrong position for take off Are your compensating measures adequate? Thanks to Neil Sultan, one of our subscribers for bringing this incident to our attention. On 8th March 2017, an MD83 aircraft, a variant of the DC-9 from Boeing McDonnell […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 48/2021
New technology often gives us an opportunity to make improvements to the way we do things and how much time it takes to get It done. Sometimes however new technology may have unexpected consequences that can lead to catastrophic results. When you introduce new technology or new ways of working, are you good at managing the changes? […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 27/2021
Following an incident, we often hear these words from the management “if only the operational team hadn’t done that” and “why didn’t they stop the job?”. What do these statements say about the management’s perception of risk management? Where should we focus our efforts on preventing incidents? Recently we have noticed that several companies […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 40 / 2020
Thanks to several of our readers who pointed out an error in last week’s Reflektion on tunnel safety. The Ryfylke tunnel is not the longest undersea tunnel, but the longest undersea road tunnel. There are several undersea rail tunnels that are longer, notably the Channel Tunnel. Good to see an engaged set of readers! The […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 39 / 2019
This week’s Reflektion is inspired by the Tay Bridge disaster in December 1879, which was the subject of a previous Reflektion in week 52/2017 Are you aware of the criticality of the assumptions you make? Which performance indicators are you monitoring? The Tay Bridge disaster occurred during a violent storm on Sunday 28th December 1879. […]
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