AVOIDING CATASTROPHE

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...

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, ...

If a harmful event can be predicted, it can be prevented. So was the FHS toxic spill predictable ? Yes. Here we show how. There were three conditions that ne...

Here is the timeline of the key events that led up to the toxic spill. The most important point to note is that they begin a full 8 years earlier, with proba...

The 2016 toxic spill into the coastal waters of Central Vietnam was the worst environmental disaster in the nation’s peacetime history. More than 110 tonnes ...

The In Amenas terrorist attack offers some important lessons for corporate security professionals operating in high risk environments. Personnel at the site ...

Crisis response is the final line of defence an organisation possesses in the face of harmful events. It is important to place it in its proper context, beca...

Crises are the result of a management failure in the face of a potentially harmful event. They arise when control mechanisms do not work as intended, either ...

A disaster is not a crisis, an issue is not an incident - these distinctions matter, because they call for different types of response. Failure to understand...

A crisis may come unexpected, they often do, but this simply means that the warning signs were not detected in time, a situation or issue was left unresolved...