Incidents & & Accidents, Trips & & Falls
Let’s spruce up these series of stories, articles, blogs, whatever you want to call them, i believe it has to do with time i offered you a little lightheartedness and …
Increased Airliner Accidents and Incidents: DEI?
Who is to blame for the increase in high-profile airliner accidents and incidents in 2024 and into 2025? Is it DEI, airline safety practices, or government intervention? Here’s another perspective …
A different perspective: Who to blame? What conditions to learn from?
Accidents, incidents and near misses occur in diving every day. Fortunately, most of them don’t end up with a serious or fatal outcome. While the media focus in diving safety …
Nine ways to stop your dive team improving…
Where there are accidents, incidents or near misses, there are parts of your behaviour, your team’s behaviour, your centre’s behaviour or your agency’s behaviour that you don’t want other people …
Accidents, incidents and general outlines of a bumpy 2023
Having a day off work, finally, I was thinking to catch up, and finally starting training again. But as fate want it, I went to the gym a bit too …
Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods
In the autumn of 1972 I visited a town called Puerto Lumbreras, located in the Province of Murcia in southeastern Spain. It had just been affected by a major …
Can a flower pot and tealight candle create enough heat to save you in a cold emergency? – The Prepared
We’ve been testing various prepping memes, like turning oranges into candles and using Doritos to start fires. Around this time of year we often see people share memes about using …
How Preparing for Emergencies Dramatically Increases Your Survival Quotient
Emergencies and disasters can strike at any moment—often without warning. But what if you could turn chaos into confidence? By preparing for emergencies, you don’t just stock up on supplies; …
Noem’s Spending Rule Causes Delays at Homeland Security Dept.
The secretary’s requirement that she personally approve any expense over $100,000 has created a backlog of “mission critical” contracts, records show.
Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management
There is currently intense interest in the possible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the management of disasters. To what extent is this a real prospect or, alternatively, the …