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"Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But, to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect." The same goes for diving. And for the nuclear industry. So how have aviation and nuclear become so safe and what can diving learn f...
In the late 1940s, there was a small-time thief called William Thompson who used to walk around New York City as a well-dressed gentleman and start conversations with strangers as if he knew them. After a bit, he would ask them “have you confidence in me to trust me with your watch until tomorrow...
This week I gave a presentation to eight young CEO's/presidents who were on a diving trip as an offsite get-together. They were all AOW-qualified and relatively inexperienced. The presentation focused on how it is possible to take the lessons I, and the other Human Diver instructors, teach in the...
A contact of mine recently described an occasion where he was delivering some fire safety training and noticed that a fire extinguisher was blocked in by other equipment. He said to the class that he had just noticed this but had missed it earlier when the class had started. The class didn’t say ...
Łatwo jest myśleć, że jeśli nie jest się przewodnikiem lub instruktorem nurkowania, to przywództwo nie ma do nas zastosowania, ale to nieprawda, każdy jest w pewnym momencie liderem. Lider to ktoś, kto rozumie po co wszyscy znajdują się w tym miejscu, potrafi to przekazać w jasny sposób tak, aby ...
It was great to see the detailed report from the NSS-CDS covering two recent cave diving fatalities, highlighting the technical details behind the two events, and identifying a number of potential causal and contributory factors. The analysis of the equipment, dive computers and details of the re...
2022 – Another ‘interesting’ year There were a number of plans made for 2022, and most of them were fulfilled. However, a small issue in April meant that two of the face-to-face courses had to be rescheduled! Blogs The Human Diver team planned to publish at least one blog a week (in English) ...
...are you going to focus on and change? Yesterday morning, six members of The Human Diver team started learning a new piece of software that we will start using next year to take our Human Factors and Non-Technical Skills training to the next level in the face-to-face programmes and also provid...
In a few of the other Dummies blogs, I mentioned Psychological Safety. What exactly is this and how can we develop it? Psychological safety exists when a team can speak up about problems they’re having, knowing that they will be listened to and respected for speaking up, not shouted at or ignore...
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in the event of success. Ernest Shackleton.” What an advert! Unfortunately, the weather got in the way of their goal to get to the South Pole. However, Shacklet...
