The Coulson C-130 Crash - Questions, Questions
The release of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) Preliminary Report into the January 27 crash of a Large Air Tanker (LAT)...
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Don't Blame the Frontline Operator
The accidental shootdown of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is a classic 'Shoot, Don't Shoot' situation. At the critical point,...
Flydubai 981 - how CRM could have made the difference
The MAK's Final Report into the Flydubai crash at Rostov-on-Don offers a useful insight into how the effective application of CRM/NTS...
Flydubai 981 - Judgment or procedure, which is better ?
The Final Report into the Flydubai 981 crash raises an interesting dilemma. This relates to the first go around attempt which was aborted...
Flydubai crash shows why CRM is so important
The release of the final Report into the Flydubai 737 crash at Rostov airport on March 19th 2016 offers strong support for the guiding...
Course Intro
This is the course intro to Avoiding Catastrophe's training program in High Consequence Decision Making, 'how to know whether you are...
'Shoot, Don't Shoot' training trailer
This is the trailer for our forthcoming online training program in High Consequence Decision Making (HCD). It is aimed at commanders,...
Clients
These clients have all used one version or another of Avoiding Catastrophe's training programs in High Consequence Decision Making (HCD)...
Mazda In Trouble After Repeated Failures
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has just announced it is taking Mazda to court on behalf of consumers who...
Callide Creek - Failure IS An Option
The Callide Creek Flood of 2015 is instructive for professionals in the disaster and emergency management field because in this incident...
Lessons from the Dunalley Fire
"Decisions taken on the fireground, at the location of any kind of emergency or military engagement, are driven by the demands of the...
The Woolsey Fire - An IMT's Worst Nightmare
The Woolsey Fire in November 2018 destroyed much of Malibu, California, cost three lives, and destroyed no less than 1,643 properties....
Intelligence Is Not Forecasting
The value of intelligence does not lie in the accuracy of its forecasts, but the quality of the decisions it informs, the actions it...
The Organisational Inputs Into Decision Making
Managers don't make decisions in isolation, they do so in an organisational context. This can either be helpful, or unhelpful, it can...
Setting The Right Objective - Why It Matters So Much
A key lesson from the Thunderstorm Asthma emergency is the importance of setting the right strategic objective to create a 'unity of...
Thunderstorm Asthma - Advanced Training In Incident Management
The thunderstorm asthma event of November 2016 caused mass casualties and the deaths of at least nine Victorians. This analysis uses the...
The 737 Max - An Organisational Not A Technical Failure
Final investigations into the two crashes that grounded the Boeing 737 Max fleet are still ongoing. A picture has emerged, however, of...
PG&E Corp - A Failing Organisation
Pacific Gas &Electricity Corporation (PG&E), California's largest electricity provider, is a failing organisation. 'Crisis management' is...
What Decision Making Really Involves
The key factors in sound decision making turn out to have nothing to do with the point of decision itself, but everything to do with how...
'Shoot, Don't Shoot' - Critical Decision Points
Here we look at a police shooting, from the officers' perspective, in order to show how critical decision points can be set up for...