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Chernobyl is prime example health and safety gone wrong, the accident happened because they were doing safety tests on backup generators. this is the kind of s
by jlebrech 10y ago
Chernobyl is prime example health and safety gone wrong, the accident happened because they were doing safety tests on backup generators.
this is the kind of scenario where the ticking off boxes mentality should not be welcome.
things should have been done the long way, i.e giving people a blackout while they were doing those tests.
they also gave the testing duties to the night shift because they ran out of time.
prime example not to test things in production, but also not test things for testing's sake (especially in production)
- digi_owl 10y agoMy impression was that management rammed the test through because they wanted to be seen as effective, even as the on-site engineers warned about the risks.
- jlebrech 10y agosecurity is where the feds should have been involved, the kremlin didn't know for quite a long time. and had they done the safety procedure it might not have happened.
- matthewmacleod 10y agoJust… what? Do you have some kind of baffling misunderstanding of what was going on here? It's perfectly possible to build systems such that they can be tested 'in production'. Indeed, in many cases I'd argue it's far more useful to informing the result of tests. I completely reject the notion that 'health and safety' and 'box ticking' is responsible for the disaster at Chernobyl, when it's quite clearly the opposite: a lack of rigorous safety procedures, and those procedures which do existing not being followed.