[SystemSafety] The ethics of dealing with mistakes

[Olwen Morgan]

Never mind the safety of buildings on stilts. They can never be made 
secure against bomb attacks simply because a bomb in a large van can be 
driven between the stilts and detonated.

I encountered this issue when I was involved, tangentially, in the 
selection of a headquarters building for a financial institution. An ex 
RAF-regiment security manager took one look at a photo of a building on 
stilts, pointed out the mobile bomb risk, and struck that building off 
the list of viable candidates ...

... but not before describing in very colourful language the "ingenus" 
that had proposed it in the first place.


Olwen



On 29/06/2020 23:41, Les Chambers wrote:
> The following is an excellent presentation on what to do when you make 
> a mistake that could have catastrophic consequences. It’s the story of 
> Citibank centre in New York City. It could have fallen over in a storm 
> and taken every building with it ,  domino like , all the way to 
> Central Park.
> I’d recommend all Nicholas Means’ presentations on YouTube. Well 
> researched and brilliantly presented.
>
> See:
> Nicholas Means – the building built on stilts
>
> https://youtu.be/NLXys9vgWiY
>
>
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