Counter-Errorism in Diving: Applying Human Factors to Diving
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Counter-Errorism in Diving: Applying Human Factors to Diving is a education podcast hosted by Gareth Lock at The Human Diver. It has 269 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
Human factors is a critical topic within the world of SCUBA diving, scientific diving, military diving, and commercial diving. This podcast is a mixture of interviews and 'shorts' which are audio versions of the weekly blog from The Human Diver.Each month we will look to have at least one interview and one case study discussion where we look at an event in detail and how human factors and non-technical skills contributed (or prevented) it from happening in the manner it did.
education ·en ·269 episodes
SH269: What Is the Purpose of an Investigation in Diving?
SH268: The Hidden Cost of "Never Show Weakness": Why Hiding Instructor Errors Undermines Dive Safety
SH267: “Diver's depression” It's time to tackle stigma and taboos
SH266: A Review of 2025. Looking Forward to 2026.
SH265: Analysis from a Human Factors Perspective - Cave Double Fatality: Calimba 2004
SH264: Teamwork in Diving: The Power of Clear Roles & Task Division
SH263: The desperate need for blame
SH262: So what can we do? The Practical Steps/Tools for Bringing HF/NTS into Diving
SH261: “Would you speak up to the Commander?” - “No. They already know” - Making changes to your team's diving
SH260: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Decision Making. To manage risk, we have to be exposed to uncertainty and harm
SH259: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Situation Awareness. Risk Perception is a critical skill - Experience Doesn’t Equal Judgement
SH258: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Psychological Safety and Just Culture
SH257: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Performance Influencing Factors - Even the best of us are only human
SH256: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers – Leadership
SH255: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Teamwork - It's more than a back up plan
SH254: Top Tips for Technical/Cave Divers: Communication
SH253: Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Decision Making
SH252: Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Situation Awareness
SH251: Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Psychological Safety and the Thumb Rule
SH250: Top tips for Diving Instructors: Performance Influencing Factors
SH249: Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Leadership - Creating the space for others to be heard
SH248: Top Tips for Diving Instructors: Teamwork
SH247: At a system level, we don't learn from diving fatalities, and here's why
SH246: Top tips for Diving Instructors: Communication (especially the difficult kind)
SH245: Asking Why. Telling Stories. Owning Accountability
SH244: Top Tips for Beginner Divers: Decision Making
SH243: Top Tips for Beginner Divers: Situation Awareness
SH242: Top Tips for Beginner Divers: Psychological Safety & Just Culture
SH241: Top Tips for Beginner Divers: Performance Influencing Factors
SH240: Top Tips for Beginner Divers Leadership and Followership
SH239: Top Tips for Beginner Divers: Teamwork
SH238: Top tips for Beginner Divers: Communications
SH237: Decision Making: Normalisation of Deviance in Rebreather Cave Diving
SH236: Reframing The Dirty Dozen - Part 4
SH235: Reframing The Dirty Dozen - Part 3
SH234: Reframing The Dirty Dozen - Part 2
SH233: Reframing The Dirty Dozen - Part 1
SH232: Instructor Toxicity: Why one bad apple really does spoil the bunch
SH231: What do you mean, the damn box is missing again?
SH230: What We Get Wrong About Psychological Safety in Diving
SH229: Debriefing a Challenging Dive- a real-life experience
SH228: Designing Checklists that work. Slowing down to get it right.
SH227: Navigating Online Narratives and Learning from Feedback in Diving
SH226: 'They Lost Situation Awareness'
SH225: The Challenge of Psychological Safety
SH224: CCR Diver Goes Hypoxic on Surface – What Causal Reasoning Taught Me About Learning from Events
SH223: The Effect of your Environment on your Decision Making: Performance Shaping Factors in Diving
SH222: You can’t risk assess a hazard you don’t know about: DeltaP
SH221: The First Human Factors in Diving Liveaboard- Living our values
SH220: I thought: "WTF did you just say?" I actually said: ....nothing. How to say when it’s not okay
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