Most incidents and accidents are down to 'human error'. Unfortunately, 'human error' is normal and we can't get rid of it. However, we can reduce the likelihood of one of those, 'Oh s***t moments' if we have an understanding of human factors and develop our non-technical skills.This is a globally-unique book containing decades of research and practice from high-risk domains translated into the world of recreational and technical diving. This is done through the use of numerous deta...

Organisations have traditionally approached personal safety in two ways:First-generation safety focuses on the physical environment of the workplace or the person’s knowledge and understanding of hazards, risks and controls. It is concerned with compliance.Second-generation safety focuses on the conscious decisions people make, or how well they keep safety front-of-mind. It is concerned with deliberate choices.Approaching safety in these two ways has ...

When faced with a ’human error’ problem, you may be tempted to ask 'Why didn’t these people watch out better?' Or, 'How can I get my people more engaged in safety?' You might think you can solve your safety problems by telling your people to be more careful, by reprimanding the miscreants, by issuing a new rule or procedure and demanding compliance. These are all expressions of 'The Bad Apple Theory' where you believe your system is basically safe if it were not for those few unreliable pe...

In 2000 Alan Chambers led the first successful unassisted British Expedition to the North Pole from Canada. Walking 500 miles and enduring remarkable challenges he was subsequently awarded the MBE for Outstanding leadership in the face of extreme adversity. Alans vision is to help leaders in business achieve new heights drawing on his inspiration. He has been engaged by business leaders the world over to present his core messages about how to achieve the seemingly impossible. He also has take...

How to turn Life's lemons into lemonade.Buckle yourself into your chair and prepare for a journey of self-analysis!Join the irrepressible Dr Tom on a rollercoaster ride through his life, from towering heights to rock bottom and back up again. When drugs weren't the only answer, how did the Doctor heal himself?Written in an easy-to-read style, Healthy Thinking is sprinkled with humour, tempered with sound advice and bursting with challenges that could change YOUR thinki...

For more than 20 years, Floyd Woodrow MBE served in the SAS. Inspiring his men in the most demanding of situations, Floyd drove his team to the highest levels of success. Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for bravery, Floyd operated at the level of the elite. Since leaving the SAS in 2008, Floyd has brought the motivational lessons and techniques learnt in the world's toughest environments to businesses, governments, sports teams and police forces around the world. Guaranteed to boos...

Scuba Exceptional is the perfect sequel to Simon Pridmore's Scuba Confidential.It reflects the same philosophy of safer diving via the acquisition of knowledge and skills. But the themes are different, there are some excellent new cautionary tales and the focus this time is more on issues that experienced divers face. There is more technical diving content and Simon explains some complex issues in his usual clear and easy-to-read style. In many cases, the concerns of technical dive...

Safety-I is defined as the freedom from unacceptable harm. The purpose of traditional safety management is therefore to find ways to ensure this ‘freedom’. But as socio-technical systems steadily have become larger and less tractable, this has become harder to do. Resilience engineering pointed out from the very beginning that resilient performance - an organisation’s ability to function as required under expected and unexpected conditions alike – required more than the prevention of incid...

Scuba Professional is an excellent source of out-of-the-box ideas and independent, objective advice for instructors and dive operators. It is also an indispensable guide for those aspiring to become dive professionals with chapters such as "Do You Have What It Takes?" and "Which Training Agency?"In short, this is everything you wanted to know about working in scuba diving but never dared to ask.Scuba Professional is not only for professionals. Serious divers who take more t...

In Powering Up Children: The Learning Power Approach to primary teaching, Guy Claxton and Becky Carlzon harness the design principles of the Learning Power Approach (LPA) to provide a rich resource of effective teaching strategies for use in the primary school classroom.Foreword by Ron Berger.The LPA is a way of teaching which aims to develop all children as confident and capable learners ready, willing, and able to choose, design, research, pur...

Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an ’organizational accident’. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to ’individual accidents’ whose damaging consequences are limited to relatively few people or assets. Although they share some common causal factors, they mostly have quite different causal pathways. The frequency of individual accidents ...

With some many different people we have to communicate with ,how do we make sure we are speaking in a style that suits the other person. Nigel has come up with a very simple yet effective way of dealing with all the animals in your life The short tempered Lions The fun,passionate monkey The very detailed elephants And the caring dolphins In this book he wants you to become an effective zoo-keeper