THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 37/2026
When Reflekt carry out investigations we always try to understandthe safety culture, for example the ‘stop the job’ principle and how it is practised. The key factors are how the supervisors respond, and how the management encourage the organisation to actually stop the job if there are concerns and uncertainties. It often doesn’t take too long to get an impression of whether […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 27/2021
Following an incident, we often hear these words from the management “if only the operational team hadn’t done that” and “why didn’t they stop the job?”. What do these statements say about the management’s perception of risk management? Where should we focus our efforts on preventing incidents? Recently we have noticed that several companies […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 45 / 2020
Your work is the thing you do to create value, but there is a difference between being busy and being productive. Are you so busy that you do not have time to do your job? I investigated a dropped object on a production platform where the area technician signed off on a work permit without checking that […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 08 / 2020
This week’s Reflektion considers the attitude of management to acceptance and encouragement of ‘Stop the job’ mantra, which many consider to be a barrier to major accidents. Thanks to Pam Currie for input to this Reflektion. How do you encourage your organisation to ‘stop the job’ if they consider something to be unsafe? Is anybody […]
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