THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 02/2023
The drive to cut costs can lead to poor decision making with catastrophic consequences. This same drive can also lead to attempts to cover up poor decisions and result in failure to take corrective action in case the decisions are exposed. When things start to go bad how far do you let them go before you react? On 28th November […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 16/2021
A passenger ferry ran aground and sank. In a high technology society, how did this happen? Does your crew know what to do in the event of an emergency? How do you know? On 26th November 1999, the passenger ferry Sleipner was travelling from Stavanger to Bergen in Norway, having just left Haugesund at 1850 hrs. Sixteen […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 03 / 2021
When things go wrong it is important that the problem(s) is (are) communicated to others concisely. Sometimes protocols need to be established to ensure communication is effective. How would people in your organisation communicate in the event of an unexpected situation that could turn into an emergency? On 8th January 2016, a Canadair CRJ200 aircraft, West Air Sweden Flight […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 43 / 2019
This week’s Reflektion is based on the fire-fighting response to the Buncefield oil storage terminal fire in 2005. What scenarios do you train for in your emergency response exercises? How far will the scenario escalate, and do you have a strategy for the response? On the 11th December 2005, a fire broke out at the […]
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