AVOIDING CATASTROPHE
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Decision making in the face of adversity - incident, emergency, and crisis management, the human factors and organisational inputs that ensure safety, mitigate risk, and minimise error
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editor@avoidingcatastrophe.com
- Oct 25, 2019
- 3 min
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 EVERYTHING THAT COUL...
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editor@avoidingcatastrophe.com
- Oct 25, 2019
- 2 min
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 situation. As such, the...
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editor@avoidingcatastrophe.com
- Oct 25, 2019
- 3 min
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. From an emergency resp...
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editor@avoidingcatastrophe.com
- Oct 20, 2019
- 3 min
PG&E Corp - A Failing Organisation
Pacific Gas &Electricity Corporation (PG&E), California's largest electricity provider, is a failing organisation. 'Crisis management' is not going to help, ...
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editor@avoidingcatastrophe.com
- Oct 17, 2019
- 2 min
Formosa Ha Tinh - What Happened
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...
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editor@avoidingcatastrophe.com
- Oct 17, 2019
- 2 min
The Formosa Hà Tinh Toxic Spill
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 ...
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editor@avoidingcatastrophe.com
- Oct 16, 2019
- 1 min
Lessons From In Amenas
The In Amenas terrorist attack offers some important lessons for corporate security professionals operating in high risk environments. Personnel at the site ...
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editor@avoidingcatastrophe.com
- Oct 16, 2019
- 4 min
Lines Of Defence Against Harmful Events
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...
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editor@avoidingcatastrophe.com
- Oct 16, 2019
- 3 min
Where Do Crises Come From ?
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 ...
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editor@avoidingcatastrophe.com
- Oct 16, 2019
- 3 min
The 'Scale of Harmful Events'
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...
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editor@avoidingcatastrophe.com
- Oct 16, 2019
- 2 min
A Crisis Never Appears Out Of Nowhere
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...
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