Cognitas Incident Research & Management

Improving Diver Safety By Challenging Current Practices and Encouraging a 'Just Culture'

Main Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • DISMS
  • Reporting
  • Human Factors
  • ‘Just Culture’
  • My PhD
  • Presentations/Talks
  • About

Category Archives: Risk

Incident involving Drop Bottle and Deep Diving

July 22, 2015by cognitasresearch 1 Comment

A group of CCR divers undertook a trip on a liveaboard to explore wrecks in the 80-120m range.  On this particular occasion the boat was located some 100m from the reef […]

Read Article →
CCR, Human Factors, Incidents, Risk, Safety, Technical Diving

How Much Are You Willing to Risk?

March 15, 2015by cognitasresearch Leave a comment

 (Edit: Lapse made while typing in the title, I missed a ‘You’ out. See, we are all human!) I have just finished reading a chapter in Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking. Fast […]

Read Article →
Human Factors, Incidents, Just Culture, Risk, Safety

The Devil is in the Detail…

August 26, 2014by cognitasresearch 3 Comments

This weekend has been a bad time for UK diving with three confirmed fatalities and one missing diver, presumed dead. The incidents all happened in different locations and the only […]

Read Article →
Human Factors, Incidents, Just Culture, Research, Risk

Voluntary Risk vs Involuntary Risk

October 31, 2013by cognitasresearch Leave a comment

As I have progressed through the vast amounts of literature researching the role of Human Factors in Diving Incidents and what the sport diving community can learn from other more […]

Read Article →
PhD Studies, Research, Risk

The Public Discussion of Diving Incidents…

August 29, 2013by cognitasresearch Leave a comment

I am glad that I get details of incidents forwarded to me so that they can be added to DISMS so that others can learn from the incident, but I am […]

Read Article →
Incidents, Risk

Violations: Good, bad or something we don’t talk about?

March 24, 2013by cognitasresearch 3 Comments

I came across this excellent article Violations in a Positive Safety Culture which looked at whether it is a good idea to have violations, whatever they may be, in an […]

Read Article →
Incidents, Risk

Improving Diving Safety By Changing Attitudes to Incident Reporting

January 11, 2013by cognitasresearch Leave a comment

This article was submitted to a number of magazines earlier this year and discusses how a change in attitude is required if we are to improve diving incident reporting. ============================================= […]

Read Article →
Incidents, Risk

Eurotek 2012 – A Fantastic Event, and not just because I was presenting!

October 16, 2012by cognitasresearch 1 Comment

This was the 3rd such technical diving conference to be held in the UK and was organised by Leigh Bishop, Roz Lunn and Mark Dixon; unfortunately Crispin Brake who joined […]

Read Article →
Incidents, Presentations, Research, Risk, Technical Diving

It Only Takes One Dive Where Complacency is Present…

October 4, 2012by cognitasresearch Leave a comment

Tonight I had a long chat with someone who was on a dive which had the potential to be really good. However, through the many links in the chain of […]

Read Article →
CCR, Incidents, Risk, Technical Diving

Medical Issues, At what point do we stop chasing…

September 25, 2012by cognitasresearch 3 Comments

This post is somewhat emotive and as a consequence, could generate some discussion. I do not believe there is a right and wrong answer to the question posed – at […]

Read Article →
Incidents, medical, Risk

Post navigation

1 2 Next →

Archives

  • January 2016
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • November 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • May 2014
  • April 2014
  • December 2013
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • March 2013
  • January 2013
  • December 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012

Categories

Advertisements

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,766 other followers

Recent Posts

  • Human Factors Skills in Diving Class Launched
  • The “Human Factor Diving” (TM) – really? More like marketing to me…
  • Pre-Mortems – Looking at the Failure in a Critical Manner
  • Incident involving Drop Bottle and Deep Diving
  • Learning from Incidents – Why It Isn’t Easy in Diving!
  • CCR Incident (Feb 2013) – Double Cell Failure, Human Factors – Inquest Report
  • Closed Circuit Rebreather Safety – Fault Tree Analysis Research Papers
  • How Much Are You Willing to Risk?
  • Destructive Goal Pursuit, or not knowing when to say stop
  • Technical Solution, New Process/Rule or Behavioural Change? – LFI Seminars Part 1
Cognitas Incident Research and Management Ltd, Company No: 7288609. © 2010, All Rights Reserved
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy