I was talking the other day with my good friend Terry Hardy, a highly respected system safety and risk management consultant who has worked for NASA and the FAA, and we were discussing a system safety book he was reading. He mentioned an example from the book about a 2005 amphibious plane crash in Miami that was caused by wing failure, precipitated very small fatigue cracks in the planes wing that were not noticed by maintenance personnel or detected by FAA inspectors. My first thought was Im never getting on a water plane ever again. My second thought was how similar flying an airplane is to planning and managing events. Each has thousands of moving parts and processes and potentially dozens of team members, and all these elements and systems must work together properly to ensure a safe landing (literally for the plane, figuratively for your events). And sometimes it only takes a loose bolt or a small oversight by a tired employee or contractor to start a disastrous and irreversible domino effect. So I read through some of Terrys insightful risk management articles and found eight principles that every event professional should apply to your event management practices. - See more at: blog.planningpod/2014/09/06/8-risk-managment-principles-for-event-management/#sthash.DbSt9Nxb.dpuf
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:00:01 +0000
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