[SystemSafety] Collected stopgap measures

[Olwen Morgan]

On 04/11/2018 08:33, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:

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> ... (is this another name for checklists, recently effusively praised here?) ...

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Good question - and not short of irony.

Checklists are far from a panacea. I hope I did not give the impression 
that I thought they were. I advanced them as a very simple measure to 
*ensure that basic sanity checks are not omitted*. I also thought that 
using checklists might help to make the box-ticking mentality work in a 
positive rather than a negative way.

As I've said before, I prefer to work on small systems, where I tend to 
think there's a better chance of getting things right. Even there, 
however, one sees frequent blunders. If a decent set of checklists were 
to prevent just some of those, then it would be worth developing it.


Olwen



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