The ORCA Project: Operational Resilience and Cognitive Awareness

The course will address issues surrounding diving incidents and fatalities. Discussion of human factors concerns will be a part of the course.

Schedule

Date: Sunday, May 22
Time: 8am - 5:30pm
Posted: 5/17/2022
Schedule: pdf version

The Problem: An overview of accident and excess risk:
0800-0815	Welcome/ Introduction to ORCA	Jim Chimiak, Dick Sadler, Frauke Tillmans
0815-0840	Lessons in cognitive awareness	Dick Sadler
Accidents, Cognition and Safety Interface:
0840-0900	Operational Diving Resilience: From simple to complex	Michael Lang
0900-0930	Diving incident reporting at DAN and the vision of participative learning	Frauke Tillmans
0930-0945	BREAK
Cognitive Psychology vs Cognitive Systems
0945-1015	Using human factors to mitigate risk and improve operational effectiveness	LCDR Matt Shipman
The Sharp End:
1015-1045	“Stay Alert, Stay Alive” Increasing SCUBA Diver Survivability: A Navy SEAL’s Hot Tips for Diving Safety	CAPT Henry Casey
1045-1115	Human factors lessons learned is subsea and space operations	Michael Gernhardt
1115-1145	Operational Risk Management Lessons from Aerospace Operations	Jon Clark
1145-1230	LUNCH
Improvement Tools:
1230-1300	Lessons from breath-hold diving	Kirk Krack
1300-1330	ORCA dashboard (DD/DABOS/GAR)	Jim Chimiak
1300-1330	ORCA dashboard (DD/DABOS/GAR)	LT Josh Fredrick
1330-1345	BREAK
1345-1415	The USN Experience	CAPT David Regis
1415-1435	Potential Needle-Movers for Recreational Diving	Karl Shreeves
1435-1455	The Secret to Teaching Human Factors in Scuba Diving	Jeff Seckendorf
1455-1520	From accident cause analysis to injury prevention	Petar Denoble
1520-1550	Saving lives in diving: lessons from checklists in healthcare	Simon Mitchell
1550-1730	SUMMARY	Tillmans, Sadler, Mitchell