Diving incidents examined

Cognitas Incident Research and Management’s paper Human Factors Within Sport Diving Incidents and Accidents took, it says, two years to prepare.

Factors considered include the propensity to conduct unsafe acts, skill-based errors, decision errors, perceptual errors, deliberate violations of limits and adverse mental and physiological states.

Also addressed are personal readiness, communication and team skills, unsafe and inadequate supervision, inappropriate plans, failure to correct known problems, and the influences of diving organisations.

Download the paper at www.cognitas.org.uk/cognitas/Human_Factors.html.