THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 25/2024
The principles of inherent safety are key to understanding how to manage risks effectively. The hierarchy for actions and measures, in order of importance, is; eliminate the hazard, substitutute the hazardous material for something less hazardous, apply technical measures to isolate the people from the hazard, provide procedures that reduces the potential for exposure to the hazard, and finally protect the […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 23/2024
IOGP has issued Life-Saving Rules (LSRs) and everyone that works in the oil industry should know these and why they are important. IOGP estimate that 376 lives could have been spared in the period 2008-2017 if the people involved had followed the LSRs. Report 459 contaoning LSRs can be downloaded from the IOGP website and of course once downloaded […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 38/2023
Inherently safer design has several basic principles that if adhered to will save lives. Keep the hazardous material contained and if it does have to be released then do it in a safe way. Keep the people away from hazardous materials and hazardous situations. If no one is there, then no one gets hurt. If […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 30/2021
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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