Focus Rescue

06/09/2025

Ut å undervise for AI Maritime Fire & Safety.
Denne plassen er verd å utforske🇮🇹

27/08/2025

Da er det to dager med årsmøte og kurs hos Maritime Fire & Safety.

25/08/2025

Den teknologiske utviklingen skjer raskere enn noen gang – også i Forsvaret. Utviklingen drives fram av alt fra modellflypapp og gorillatape i luften til superavanserte høyteknologiske løsninger i dypet.

09/08/2025

Bristow has released its Q2 2025 financial results. More details are available in our news release at https://www.bristowgroup.com/news-media/press-releases/detail/582/bristow-group-reports-second-quarter-2025-results-raises and our earnings presentation at https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_0d4db190d54a68d85425967f9f6480af/bristowgroup/db/781/9957/pdf/Q2+2025+Earning+Presentation.pdf.

As a reminder, Bristow has scheduled a conference call for tomorrow morning, Wednesday, August 6, 2025, beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET (9:00 a.m. CT).

Investors may participate in that call by using the following link: https://www.veracast.com/webcasts/bristow/webcasts/VTOL2Q25.cfm

08/08/2025

Performing Acceptance Test on Bristow Norway’s own developed SAR Rescue Vest.
Sjøredningsskolen.
Thanks to -ss and

29/07/2025

Jeg legger ut en artikkel av Michel MASSON i EASA. Artikkelen omhandler Capture Errors, noe som er aktuelt for alle oss som flyr, men også innen andre yrker. Det handler om bevissthet.
«We are all mortale humans»
God lesning😊

Michel MASSON • 28 July 2025

The 5th or the 6th floor?

Last week, I moved from the 5th to the 6th floor of the EASA building, as I am now part of the EASA Communication and Safety Promotion Department, headed by Janet Northcote.

Friday morning, in the elevator – guess what – I pressed the 5th floor button instead of the 6th, a classical mistake.

This error qualifies as a routine error because the 5th floor button was previously commonly used. It could also be considered a capture error – a less commonly used term—since my finger was kind of automatically attracted or captured by the 5th floor button, despite it being inappropriate in this new context, and I couldn't suppress the action.

A moment later, I noticed the mistake and corrected it. The lift control panel then looked like what you see in the picture, with both the 5th and 6th floors selected:

Se bildet i bunn av artikkelen (red)


The error was mainly due to habit, combined with poor attention management – my thoughts were elsewhere, focused on my afterrnoon’s tasks. The side-by-side placement of the two buttons – the design element, didn’t help either.

The consequences of undetected or uncorrected errors depend on the system, the situation and the environment: they can range from none, to minor, serious, or even catastrophic.

In this case, the error had no real consequences – except it gave me the idea to write this short article.

Capture error
Would you Google “capture error”, the AI Overview provided by Google (*) would provide the following definition, examples, and mitigation measures (ref. July 25, 2025):

(*) Google AI Overviews use the Gemini large language model (LLM).

Definition

A capture error is a type of human error where a more practiced or frequently performed action is mistakenly executed instead of a less familiar or intended action. This often happens when two actions are similar, and the more ingrained one "captures" the behavior.

Examples of Capture Errors

Phone Numbers:
Intending to give your work phone number but accidentally giving your home phone number.

Typing:
Typing your name when you meant to type another word that starts with the same letters.

Driving:
Driving to your old workplace instead of your current one, even though you've driven to the new one many times.

Computer Input:
Typing a word you frequently use when you meant to type a different word with similar first few letters.

Capture errors are considered a type of "slip": a type of error that occurs when a person's actions don't align with their intended outcome, often due to automaticity or a lack of attention.

How to Address Capture Errors

Awareness:
Recognizing that capture errors can happen can help people be more mindful of their actions.

Redesign:
Interfaces and processes can be redesigned to reduce the likelihood of capture errors by making the intended action more distinct or less prone to confusion.

Training:
Targeted training and practice can help reinforce the correct actions, making them less susceptible to being captured by more automatic behaviors.

References
You might enjoy these two reads – bedtime reads, because they are so entertaining:

Human Error by James Reasons | Higher Education from Cambridge,

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman | MIT Press.

28/07/2025

Trenger ditt team kurs og opplæring innen Brannlagstrening, Avansert taktisk ledelse for maritim beredskap, Mass Rescue Operations eller hvordan organisere beredskapen ifm Medevac?

Få den nyeste kunnskapen tilgjengelig!
Vi har erfarne instruktører fra Brann, helse og redningstjeneste, som kan hjelpe dere å bygge beredskap og øke kompetansen både for Brann-lag, ledere og Offiserer.
Ta kontakt for informasjon.

Arvid Lie Maritime Fire & Safety offers onboard fire team training for officers and crew on cruise ships around the world. Our high quality consultancy services help ensure the safety of passengers and crew members at sea.

06/07/2025

BRACE, BRACE, BRACE FOR IMPACT!
You manage to get your arms crossed and grab your vest in a kind of crash position.
The moment of impact is violent and intense.
Althoug your eyes is closed, your brain is simultaneously registrering movement, noise, preassure, confusion and uncertainty all at once.
The cabin is rapidly filling with icy cold water.
In a second, you are completely submerge upside down.
Your initial instinct is to get away!
- away from the water.
- away from the cold.
You try to open your eyes, but everything is blurry.
It’s been just a few seconds since the crash, but the desire to breathe is quickly becoming overwhelming!
You need to breathe!!
You rembember your EBS system.
You pull it free and put the second stage in your mouth, expecting the relief of air. Instead icy cold water fills your mouth. You start to gag and choke. You purge the regulator and inhale again. Trying to get some control.
You are breathing!
Now we just have to find a way out….

And some are still thinking we don’t need this training?
HUET training is vital for your survival.
We must train often and with good documented exercises and theory to back it up.
You got less than 15 seconds to survive!

«The scenario above is based on how most Helicopter impact/ditchings take place
(Brooks,McDonald, Donato & Taber, 2008)»

20/06/2025

Recruiting: HLO Instruktør

Kjenner jeg noen Offshore piloter som kunne tenke seg en ekstrajobb som instruktør på RS Sjøredningsskolen i Horten av og til?
Har du erfaring fra opplæring/ instruksjon, ta kontakt med Eirik Solheim Haugen for informasjon.
Tlf: +47 901 07 706

12/06/2025

Da pakker vi bagen for oppdrag på M.S Viking Vela i 9 dager for AL Maritime Fire & Safety.
Som partner tilbyr de brann og beredskapskurs for cruise industrien.
Brannlagstrening, Taktisk ledertrening og kurs innen MRO og Medevac.

19/03/2025

I have had the pleasure of working with several companies, testing and developing tomorrows inflatable Life preservers.
It has been very interesting to learn about their insights.

08/12/2024

«Survival doesn’t just happen»
It takes knowledge, skills, training and sometimes a bit of luck.