Avoiding Catastrophe has developed a support system to assist with decision making in complex, high stakes environments. Here is a brief...

This overview of mine security in a high risk environment was prepared for a small operator preparing to expand into Africa and lacking...

T3 Tactical Team Training has been developed from research conducted by the US Navy in the wake of the accidental shooting down of Iran...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

This incident involves a friendly fire incident that took place in Arghandab District, Afghanistan. The error was in large part due to...

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

On October 23rd 1983, 241 US Marines died when a truck bomb exploded in their barracks, the former Civil Aviation Authority building...

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

‘Avoiding Catastrophe’ is the overarching concept behind all management decision making that takes place in the face of adversity. It...