AVOIDING CATASTROPHE

The release of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) Preliminary Report into the January 27 crash of a Large Air Tanker (LAT) during firefighting ope...

The accidental shootdown of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is a classic 'Shoot, Don't Shoot' situation. At the critical point, the missile battery...

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 could have assisted dur...

The Final Report into the Flydubai 981 crash raises an interesting dilemma. This relates to the first go around attempt which was aborted following a wind sh...

The release of the final Report into the Flydubai 737 crash at Rostov airport on March 19th 2016 offers strong support for the guiding principles behind Crew...

This is the course intro to Avoiding Catastrophe's training program in High Consequence Decision Making, 'how to know whether you are being set up to succeed...

This is the trailer for our forthcoming online training program in High Consequence Decision Making (HCD). It is aimed at commanders, leaders, and managers w...

These clients have all used one version or another of Avoiding Catastrophe's training programs in High Consequence Decision Making (HCD) and T3 Tactical Team...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has just announced it is taking Mazda to court on behalf of consumers who bought cars that turned o...

The Callide Creek Flood of 2015 is instructive for professionals in the disaster and emergency management field because in this incident EVERYTHING THAT COUL...

"Decisions taken on the fireground, at the location of any kind of emergency or military engagement, are driven by the demands of the situation. As such, the...

The Woolsey Fire in November 2018 destroyed much of Malibu, California, cost three lives, and destroyed no less than 1,643 properties. From an emergency resp...

The value of intelligence does not lie in the accuracy of its forecasts, but the quality of the decisions it informs, the actions it produces and their resul...

Managers don't make decisions in isolation, they do so in an organisational context. This can either be helpful, or unhelpful, it can provide adequate guidan...

A key lesson from the Thunderstorm Asthma emergency is the importance of setting the right strategic objective to create a 'unity of effort' across the multi...

The thunderstorm asthma event of November 2016 caused mass casualties and the deaths of at least nine Victorians. This analysis uses the IGEM Report Findings...

Final investigations into the two crashes that grounded the Boeing 737 Max fleet are still ongoing. A picture has emerged, however, of organisational decisio...

Pacific Gas &Electricity Corporation (PG&E), California's largest electricity provider, is a failing organisation. 'Crisis management' is not going to help, ...

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 this is set up. Situ...

Here we look at a police shooting, from the officers' perspective, in order to show how critical decision points can be set up for success, or for failure. I...