The release of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) Preliminary Report into the January 27 crash of a Large Air Tanker (LAT)...

The accidental shootdown of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is a classic 'Shoot, Don't Shoot' situation. At the critical point,...

The MAK's Final Report into the Flydubai crash at Rostov-on-Don offers a useful insight into how the effective application of CRM/NTS...

The Final Report into the Flydubai 981 crash raises an interesting dilemma. This relates to the first go around attempt which was aborted...

The release of the final Report into the Flydubai 737 crash at Rostov airport on March 19th 2016 offers strong support for the guiding...

This is the course intro to Avoiding Catastrophe's training program in High Consequence Decision Making, 'how to know whether you are...

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

These clients have all used one version or another of Avoiding Catastrophe's training programs in High Consequence Decision Making (HCD)...

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has just announced it is taking Mazda to court on behalf of consumers who...

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...

The Woolsey Fire in November 2018 destroyed much of Malibu, California, cost three lives, and destroyed no less than 1,643 properties....

The value of intelligence does not lie in the accuracy of its forecasts, but the quality of the decisions it informs, the actions it...

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

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

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

Final investigations into the two crashes that grounded the Boeing 737 Max fleet are still ongoing. A picture has emerged, however, of...

Pacific Gas &Electricity Corporation (PG&E), California's largest electricity provider, is a failing organisation. 'Crisis management' is...

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...