SH311: 3. Don’t Wait - Learn From Everyday Work Using HOP Principles

Counter-Errorism in Diving: Applying Human Factors to Diving · Oct 3, 2026 · 6m

This episode explores Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), an approach to safety that starts with the idea that people will always make mistakes, so we should focus on understanding why decisions made sense at the time rather than simply blaming individuals. Drawing on a workshop from the Human Factors in Diving Conference in Vis, Croatia, we look at how HOP can be applied to diving by considering the conditions, information, equipment and pressures people were working with. Using a hypothetical case of a dive boat leaving two divers behind, we compare traditional incident…