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Latent Threats: When training bites back
Latent Threats: When training bites back. This blog is about Latent Threats. Threats that lurk undetected in training systems, procedures and practice. In a previous blog post, Threat Managers: Rethinking Risk, we described the approach of Threat and Error Management. Specifically we described threats as being inherent in mountaineering, the need to manage them, and…
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Threat Managers: Rethinking risk
Threat Managers: Rethinking risk. This blog is about the management of risk in the outdoor sector, the challenges with risk and a way forward. Here I argue that we need to rethink our notions of risk, explaining the approach of Threat and Error Management (TEM). Mountain Professionals are well placed to act as “Threat Managers”.…
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Slow is smooth, smooth EQUALS FAST
Slow is smooth, smooth equals fast is the title of this blog. In climbing and mountaineering there is prestige in speed. Perhaps even an association with speed and competence… This is a blog about the culture of speed in the training, assessment and practice of mountain professionals. It is always there, sometimes pervasive and certainly…
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