Category: Liability

  • Change in the railway

    Complex systems have inherent risk Whichever one we think about – weather, eco-systems, financial markets or railways – each has hazards and risks that we are unable to control fully due to the number of factors involved and volume of activities that occur daily. Changes to complex, man-made systems are managed to prevent catastrophic failures…

  • Fail to control design = designed to fail?

    I had a recent and very specific query recently about design process and effectiveness measures for Management Review in a Medical Devices environment. The question was specifically about demonstrating that outputs of the design process match inputs and whether this was acceptable to present to the Top Management team? The question was also about ISO…

  • Shabby operators

    Another holiday, another example of a #shabbyoperator. In this case it is car hire company @Europcar and their franchisee – @interrent_ES, operating out of Palma airport on the beautiful island of Majorca. It’s the usual story of picking up a hire car and needing to run round it with a fine tooth comb and I…