THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 17/2021
As time goes on the ‘risk picture’ usually changes, sometimes for the better but sometimes for the worse. Reflekt have seen these changes being missed in recent incident investigations. What signals do you look for to indicate that circumstances have changed, and previous assumptions are no longer valid? An activity or an operation that has […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 41 / 2020
Major Accidents often lead to a revision of relevant standards to help prevent a recurrence. There have often been signals that improvements have been needed, but perhaps these have not been heeded. This month is the 99-year anniversary of the Mount Mulligan mine disaster in Australia, and we will revisit the accident in this Reflektion. […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 32 / 2020
Trevor Kletz was an industrial safety advisor in Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). He published a monthly newsletter describing incidents that had occurred in the company and actions needed to prevent them. Soon he was sending out 2000 copies a month to both internal and external recipients. After he retired be published many of these in […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 07 / 2020
In our Weekly Reflektion last week, week 6/2020 we discussed the explosion on the Rough platform in 2006. This week’s Reflektion considers the evacuation and the challenges in launching the lifeboat. Are you carrying out your training on equipment and systems that are the same as the equipment and systems you use in practice? Sometimes […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 04 / 2020
In our Weekly Reflektion for week 35/2018 we presented a near miss at the Sullom Voe terminal in Shetland and used the phrase ‘There but for the Grace of God go I’. The phrase was allegedly a statement by the English Reformer John Bradford in the sixteenth century made while watching a group of prisoners […]
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