THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 05/2025
Major Accidents are still a feature of our lives. Disasters are being reported from all over the world. Fires are raging, planes and trains are crashing, buildings are collapsing, dams are bursting, all with tragic consequences. The headlines of course do not give any indication of whether we are getting better, but they do remind us that despite all […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 47/2024
Reflekt will organise a breakfast seminar Wednesday 27th November. In the seminar we will consider what the offshore petroleum industry can learn from the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. The seminar will be held at the Quality Hotel Pond in Forus from 0800 to 1000. A light breakfast will be served beforehand. There is plenty of free […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 02/2024
Many industries are using remote monitoring and operation in the search for safer, more reliable, and lower cost operations. This inevitably requires secure communication systems and often a central control room where incoming information is assessed, and actions taken. When conditions become extreme there is also a requirement for anticipation of the consequences and prompt […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 44/2023
Many companies and organisations talk about the 1, 2, 3 of taking control of disasters and organising a response to an emergency. The three steps are: assess your needs, create a plan, and engage your support network. In industry these emergency situations are often described in an emergency response analysis and the plans are pre-determined in the emergency response […]
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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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