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Human Factors! ‘Human factors’ is a huge topic. It is a scientific discipline that covers many different sorts of activities depending on where you are: Anthropometrics – how the human body fits or works with physical design. Cognitive psychology – how we make sense of the world and ‘make ch...
This particular blog is not intended to give you a simple answer to a complex problem, rather it is to encourage you to think about how you consider safety in diving, how you achieve it, and how the industry and communities help maintain it. The questions to consider are: Can you be safe and ...
The rational thing about human behaviour is that it is irrational! It is rational at the time to those involved, but it might appear to be irrational after the event by those outside the event, given that we know the outcome and we can easily join the dots. Humans respond well to positive reward...
I recently made a social media post about the impact that punishment can have on learning which was an extract from a research paper looking at what happens if you change the approach when it comes to 'investigations'. "Contrary to the suggestion in accident reporting literature that punishment...
Two days ago was the fourth anniversary of Brian Bugge's death in Hawaii - (which is why there are the +2 days in the title) There isn't going to be a blog this week. All I am going to ask is that you spend 34 mins of your precious time watching this video. If Only... was influenced by 'Just a R...
During the Second World War, American bomber pilots kept on raising the landing gear on their B-17 bombers instead of raising the flaps as they taxied in from bombing raids. The regular response after these accidents was that the pilots should pay more attention, and if they couldn’t, they needed...
The short story. A technical instructor didn’t analyse their gas prior to a 55m dive which meant that they ended up breathing gas at 1.8 pO2. They survived. The long story is what was written about in last week’s blog (read it here, as it isn’t as simple as this first sentence describes). As yo...
Following on from Gareth’s blog last week, I’d like to share a mistake I made. If you haven’t read last week’s blog, I suggest you go and read that first. I have two ways of telling this story; I can either tell you what I did (and the outcomes) or I can give you the details first. If I tell you...
We all make mistakes - we do the wrong thing, thinking it’s the right thing. We all slip at times - doing something that we didn’t intend to do. We all have lapses of memory - forgetting something in the heat of the moment. Everyone breaks rules of some sort during their lives, often because we s...
I was recently asked, “As an instructor, how do you encourage challenger safety without putting the essential leadership of the instructor's role in danger?” This is a very important point and so I am going to dedicate a blog to answer it. This ended up a bit longer than expected, but I know it i...
