Chapter 12
Disaster Recovery and Management
When you face a challenge that demands a solution or a
decision, you have two choices – you can either emulate the
example set by others or use your own creativity and
intelligence to formulate a new idea.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
(My Vision. Challenges in the Race for Excellence)
. . .historically, healthcare institutions have not routinely
collected data on how accidents happen, and so cannot detect
meaningful patterns, let alone learn from them.
In aviation, on the other hand, pilots are generally open and
honest about their mistakes (crash landings, near misses).
The industry has powerful, independent bodies designed to
investigate crashes. Failure is not regarded as an indictment
of the specific pilot who messes up, but a precious learning
opportunity for all pilots, all airlines and all regulators.
Matthew Syed (Black Box Thinking)
On the night of February 1, 1953, a very bad storm lashed the
Dutch coast. It broke the famous sea dikes, the country’s
ancient and proud bulwark against disaster. More than 1800
died. Dutch hydrologists found the flooding had pushed the
benchmark water-level indicators, in Amsterdam, to 3.85
meters over the average level. Seemingly impossible. The
dikes had been thought to be safe enough from such a
calamity; the conventional odds of so high a flood were
thought to have been less than one in ten thousand. And yet,
further research showed, an even greater inundation of four
meters had been recorded only a few centuries earlier in
1670. Naturally, the pragmatic Dutch did not waste time
arguing about the matter. They cleared up the damage and
rebuilt the dikes higher and stronger.
B.B. Mandelbrot, R.L. Hudson
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough
to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Disaster Recovery and Management
When you face a challenge that demands a solution or a
decision, you have two choices – you can either emulate the
example set by others or use your own creativity and
intelligence to formulate a new idea.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
(My Vision. Challenges in the Race for Excellence)
. . .historically, healthcare institutions have not routinely
collected data on how accidents happen, and so cannot detect
meaningful patterns, let alone learn from them.
In aviation, on the other hand, pilots are generally open and
honest about their mistakes (crash landings, near misses).
The industry has powerful, independent bodies designed to
investigate crashes. Failure is not regarded as an indictment
of the specific pilot who messes up, but a precious learning
opportunity for all pilots, all airlines and all regulators.
Matthew Syed (Black Box Thinking)
On the night of February 1, 1953, a very bad storm lashed the
Dutch coast. It broke the famous sea dikes, the country’s
ancient and proud bulwark against disaster. More than 1800
died. Dutch hydrologists found the flooding had pushed the
benchmark water-level indicators, in Amsterdam, to 3.85
meters over the average level. Seemingly impossible. The
dikes had been thought to be safe enough from such a
calamity; the conventional odds of so high a flood were
thought to have been less than one in ten thousand. And yet,
further research showed, an even greater inundation of four
meters had been recorded only a few centuries earlier in
1670. Naturally, the pragmatic Dutch did not waste time
arguing about the matter. They cleared up the damage and
rebuilt the dikes higher and stronger.
B.B. Mandelbrot, R.L. Hudson
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough
to make them all yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48559-7_12
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