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About ten years ago I started up a small section on a UK diving forum (YD then TDF) called “I learned about diving from that…” (ILADFT) which was based on the RAF Flight Safety magazine section “I learned about flying from that…” where aircrew would write in about their mistakes and cl...
Normalisation of Deviance’ is a term which has become more popular in diving environments with articles being written by well known individuals such as Steve Lewis and Andy Davis explaining the context in terms of diving accidents in the US and Dr Guy Garman’s fatal attempt for a world record OC ...
This is a summary of my presentation at TekDiveUSA as recordings weren't allowed. The interactive presentation was just short of an hour so this is a bit of a long post!! The simple premise is that we don’t know what we don’t know. Even worse, we don’t that we don’t know!! This double hit in com...
A comment I often get is "How relevant is Human Factors to my diving and why should I care? I haven't had an accident so far, so I (we) can't be doing anything too wrong" This is a fair comment but consider that high risk organisations have learned the hard way: using the premise that evidence f...
"An online survey drawing on 50 key offshore companies saw 34% of respondents saying their company needed to offer additional operational and technical training. Worryingly, 50% found it difficult to say ‘no’ to a client or senior staff demanding actions that might compromise safety. Some 78% o...
Delivering training and coaching programmes in multi-cultural environments has demonstrated that culture has a large impact on the viability of an intervention developed in one culture and its applicability and effectiveness in another, especially when considering aspects such as communications, ...
