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2012 SENIOR BUSINESS LEADERS SAFETY FORUM - 24TH MAY 2012

AKT Productions would like to invite you to our 2012 Senior Business Leaders' Safety Forum at the Mermaid Conference & Events Centre on 24th May 2012.

The day features two compelling contemporary theatre-based scenarios:

'Corporate Manslaughter - Your Call'

Road worker 'Your Call' - a story of corporate manslaughter? Set in a world where pressure to deliver can have fatal consequences...

Time: 10.30am - 1pm (10am registration)

Features key note presentation from a corporate manslaughter specialist.

'Your Call' is sponsored by May Gurney

'Deepwater'

'Deepwater' - The story of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on 20 April 2010, when 11 people needlessly lost their lives and a tide of toxic pollution was released into the Gulf of Mexico.

Time: 2pm - 4pm (1.30pm registration)

Clients such as Shell, BA, Energy Solutions, Office for Nuclear Regulation, Thames Water, Magnox and the Energy Institute have engaged AKT to deliver the 'Deepwater' workshop to date.

Venue

The workshops will take place on 24th May 2012 at The Mermaid Conference & Events Centre, Puddle Dock, Blackfriars, London, EC4V 3DB.

You are welcome to attend either/or both workshops and network over lunch which will be available from 1pm - 2pm.

Event Registration

To book your place please email events@aktproductions.co.uk or call 0207 620 0843 and state whether you would like to attend the morning or afternoon workshop or both.

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Fri 20 Jan 2012
TRAGEDY PLAYED OUT AS FARCE
The images of the Costa Concordia Cruise Liner on its side have been broadcast around the world. The funnel of the ship almost touches the land and the rocks which ripped a hole in the hull of the huge ship stand as mute evidence of disastrous failings of navigation. As of today 11 people are known to have lost their lives, but 21 people are still missing. It is clear that the actions of the Captain will receive huge media attention as investigations begin, and this is where tragedy becomes farce. The reason he hit the rocks was that he took the vessel close to the island to salute a retired colleague – Captain Palombo. As far as I know BA does not approve pilots of its aircraft to fly by their friends’ houses to give them a wave. Nor do airline pilots ignore navigation equipment, but Captain Schettino was navigating by sight, due to ‘his knowledge of the area’. He said afterwards; ‘I don’t know why it happened.’ This must rate as one of the most inadequate reflections on a fatal incident. Now...

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Thu 25 Aug 2011
LOSS OF THE TUG CHIEFTON
Living close to the Thames as it sweeps around the Isle of Dogs, I am so used to seeing tugs plying up and down river, that I had never properly considered the dangers inherent in what they do. All that changed on the 12th of August when, less than a hundred yards from where I sat, on a calm sunlit morning, the tug Chiefton capsized in thirty seconds, and a man was lost. Clearly something had gone catastrophically wrong, and we will need to wait until the results of the investigation before commenting specifically on the circumstances of this case, but it prompted me to see if it was a unique occurrence. Sadly I discovered that there have been numerous recently documented cases. · July 2002 the North Arm Venture sank in British Columbia whilst towing, and the frightening speed of its capsize can be seen on Youtube. All crew were saved. · December 2007 the Flying Phantom sank in the Clyde, with the loss of three men. ·...

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Mon 16 May 2011
MULTIPLE REDUNDANCY?
An important aspect of safe, uninterrupted operation, is multiple redundancy. Hospitals have two or three backup generators in case the mains supply fails, modern Airbus aircraft have three separate ‘fly by wire’ systems, any one of which can control the aircraft, and critical computer systems may have several servers on different continents to protect against breakdown. Unfortunately we have seen several instances, some very recently, in which multiple redundancy was bypassed, through error or natural disaster, causing the entire system to fail. In his excellent book ‘The Blame Machine (Why human error causes accidents)’, RB Whittingham explains how a single maintenance error caused all four engines of a BAe 146 of the Royal Flight to lose their oil at the worst time – during flight. By luck and pilot skill the aircraft made an emergency landing on the one engine which, despite losing oil at a terrifying rate, was still working. A few more minutes and the pilots would have been flying a glider. One of the reasons the Royal Flight uses BAe 146 aircraft is the reliability of the four engines. Any one of those engines will, as in this case, allow...