AVOIDING CATASTROPHE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The In Amenas terrorist attack offers some important lessons for corporate security professionals operating in high risk environments. Pe...

This presentation for the AFINT Conference focuses on the human element in warfare. It provides examples of where low tech beats high tec...

In this talk I discuss the importance of understanding, a human characteristic, in military decision making, by looking at the airstrike ...

High Consequence Decision Making (HCD) is a management program whose goal is to minimise the risk of catastrophic error. It is designed f...

Military decisions carry high consequences, often life or death. They contain the potential for catastrophic error, from which there can ...