THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 32/2024
Collecting data, and analysing it to find the causes behind an incident is one of the keys to a good investigation. Jumping to immediate conclusions may be easy and cheap in the short term, but is not likely to provide the learning required in the long term. Do you have the stamina to challenge established truths? John Snow (1813 […]
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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 03 / 2020
The subject of this week’s Reflektion is the Ladbroke Grove rail crash in London, England. Reflekt will be organising a breakfast seminar in April 2020 where we will consider the three ‘R’s’, Reliability, Robustness, Resilience. Watch out for more information on our web site. Do you have an effective action tracking process? Have performance […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 48 / 2019
The subject of this week’s Reflektion is the Southall rail crash in London, England in 1997 and the consequences of disabling safety systems. Do you disable safety systems without applying mitigating actions? How do you ensure that disabled safety systems do not lead to a disaster? On the 19th September 1997, a high-speed passenger train […]
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