THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 50/2023
The principle of identifying dangers and threats to your operation and establishing barriers to prevent these causing an incident and/or reducing the consequences of any incident is well established in the world of process safety. Even then we still experience serious accidents and people get hurt. This principle is also relevant to cyber safety. Our increased use […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 47/2023
Cyber safety is in vogue and rightly so. There are many examples of cyber attacks where IT systems have been hacked and the victims have been defrauded of millions and/or threatened with destruction of important information unless a ransom is paid. Cyber attacks on Operational Technology (OT) systems, for example, PLCs (programmable logic controllers) that are the basis for […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 11/2023
The blowout on the Macondo well on 20th April 2010 led to the deaths of 11 persons and the loss of the drilling rig Transocean Deepwater Horizon. The clean-up of the oil spill and the various settlements and fines ultimate cost BP 61.6 billion dollars. BP, at that time one of the biggest companies in the […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 04 / 2020
Reflekt was started in October 2017 and since then we have produced 115 Reflektions that we hope have been interesting reading and perhaps provided useful learning. Reflekt has also organised five seminars on learning from Major Accidents. Our belief that the unique insights from the investigations into Major Accidents can be used both to prevent […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 51 / 2019
This week’s Reflektion is a follow up on the Reflektions in week 49 and week 50 and concerns the process of changing of our mental models. Learning is not the just the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is the application of new knowledge and new experience to a desired end. Learning requires a change in the […]
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