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155 Making Safety Essential in 2023 with Gareth Lock

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we share a great resource to make dive safety a priority in your diving operations.

Welcome To The Show!

Welcome to The Dive Locker Podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.

Hey everybody welcome to 2023! I hope you had wonderful holidays I certainly did, spending lots of time with friends and family and also getting to do some epic travel to Colorado for some amazing skiing and snowboarding with my family.

So now that it’s 2023 what plans do you have? Any big resolutions that you’ve made? Many of us use this time to make both personal and professional resolutions for the new year. And in today’s episode I would like to encourage you on a professional resolution, and that is to open up your diving business in whatever way shape or form you’re diving business is, to the Human Diver program and specifically the Essentials course that Gareth Lock with the Human Diver puts on.

As you know we’ve had Gareth on this show on a couple different occasions but at the end of last year I took his Essentials online course. And I was blown away with how good it is and how much I learned. As you know I’m a risk management guy it’s my background and it’s my focus today. However the essentials course is so valuable and rich that I have now adopted it in the NSU Academic Diving Program for our staff.

And just this week as we kicked off our first semester of 2023, our first staff meeting was centered around this training that I had provided for each of our staff members. The feedback was amazing! And one of the greatest calls to action is what will you change about your diving operations after taking this course? That was pivotal for my team of Divemasters and Instructors. We all embraced the concept and came up with strategies to better our program.

In fact this course will now be included in our divemaster training and a requirement for anyone to work at our dive program.

So in today’s episode Gareth Lock and I discuss his Essentials course in detail and this is a great conversation that will have you understanding why the title is Essentials. Because in my opinion this training is essential for any diving professional of any level.

Items In This Episode

  • Cultural safety
  • Close calls and near misses
  • Communications
  • Swiss Cheese Model
  • What are you going to change?
  • The Essentials Course

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106 Happy Two Year Anniversary!

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we just want to thank our listeners for being with us on our two year anniversary.

Welcome To The Show!

Welcome to The Dive Locker Podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.

Well, this week marks the two year anniversary of The Dive Locker Podcast. Wow, I am humbled. Why? Because the goal of this show has been to enhance the skills of diving professionals. And I thought there would be me an maybe a couple dozen others who found this helpful. I was wrong. We are right at 60,000 downloaded episodes – that is truly amazing considering this is a niche of a niche. Of outdoors category you got scuba podcasts, but we are actually for dive pro’s exclusively. So. I am absolutely blown away by the support you all have given this show over the last two years.

Thank you PATRONS!!

Speaking of support. I always remind you of supporting this show financially by being a patron of The Dive Locker Podcast. Today I want to acknowledge all the patrons who support my time and energy producing this show.
Our patrons are:
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THOMAS JANSEN
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Monthly Dive Locker Podcast PATRONS ($4 per month)

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Brad is new this week, I’ll give him a proper shoutout next week. But, I want to thank each and every one of you. Your monthly support truly makes a difference. Thank you, thank you for being patrons!

Future Episodes

So what’s next. We have done 105 episodes this is 106 and there are a lot more in the hopper. Now, I should mention that as I was reflecting on this show I notice that in iTunes this show starts at episode 6. Well in the beginning the first two or three episodes actually appeared in my other podcast The League of Extraordinary Divers! That was quite by mistake. But the thing is, I don’t know how to bring them over without completely altering this podcast and the episode sequence. So you can listen to them on The League of Extraordinary Divers Podcast. But I’m still missing episodes 4 and 5! As you can see I’m still learning. I’m such a novice even 2 years in.

So, back to the question, what’s next. First, there’s always new risk management stuff. We are going to tackle things that can be improved in our industry. Then there’s teaching, well there’s a buzz about kneeling, yep we will address training in neutral buoyancy. And we will be going heavy on diving business. I have partnered up with Jennifer Shaheen an absolute digital marketing guru. We are going to hit episodes to get you rocking and rolling in modern day digital marketing platforms.

Also coming up is DEMA Show in Las Vegas. I will be doing a couple episodes on this largest show in our industry. In fact I will be speaking at DEMA Show 2021 on line and in person at the show. And if your going to DEMA please connect with me so we can meet and say hi.

Oh and just a reminder Gareth Lock from episodes 43 & 101 will be hosting the first ever Human Factors in Diving Conference. The Human Factors in Diving Conference provides a unique opportunity to learn about the theoretical and practical applications of human factors in diving. It has a great lineup of speakers and it can be watched live or on recorded presentation. Please check that out at hf-in-diving-conference.com

And speaking of speakers I will be inviting some of the biggest pro’s in diving to share their wisdom and experiences with you.

Hey this episode today is just meant to be short and sweet, and a thank you.

So I am absolutely blessed. Blessed by the professional contacts and friendships that have started due to this podcast. I truly appreciate you all, your wonderful comments, your friend requests on Facebook, all of it. You all are rockstars and thank you for being a part of the Dive Locker podcast.

Episode Sponsor

If you find this show adds value to you as a dive pro and you’d like to help support the show, please consider supporting it on Patreon. It’s only $4 per month – that’s only $1 per episode. When you become a supporter of The Dive Locker you’ll get a shout out from me on the next episode after you join. You will also be listed on the Patrons of Dive Locker Podcast webpage. And you will receive 10% off any ScubaGuru Academy course at the Patron level, and 20% off at the Rockstar level. And of course my undying appreciation for helping support the show.

https://www.patreon.com/thedivelocker

Thanks For Listening!

That’s it for today, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Remember to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher, that way you’ll be notified of new episodes as soon as they go live and please leave a rating. Items talked about in this episode can be found on the show notes Page at scubaguru.com . There you can also click the microphone and leave us a comment. Thanks again. We’ll see you in the next episode. Safe diving and take good care of my friends.

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101 Human Factors In Diving With Gareth Lock

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In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we learn about human factors in diving with Gareth Lock.

Welcome To The Show!

Welcome to The Dive Locker Podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.

You’ve heard it said that diving accidents occur because of poor judgement and that it is usually a series of events that lead to a big mishap. There is truth to both of those statements, but a more profound thing to consider is that it can happen even to the best of us when subtle changes take place in our diving prep or the day itself.

And there’s no one better to discuss this topic with than Gareth Lock of The Human Diver, and he is launching the first ever Human Factors Conference for Divers. And we will be discussing that today.

Gareth Lock

Gareth Lock is a retired Royal Air Force senior officer Navigator of 25 years, who was both a senior supervisor and a tactical flight instructor on an operational C-130 flying squadron. He has a MSc in Aerospace Systems from Kingston University and spent his last 5 years in the RAF as a Requirements Manager for Defensive Aids Systems working across all levels of industry, research and the military from front-line user to very senior officers, both in the UK and in the US, often at highly classified levels.

Gareth is an Open Circuit advanced trimix diver (Technical Diver Level 2 with Global Underwater Explorers) and normoxic trimix CCR diver (JJ-CCR with TDI) with around 800 dives over 12 years of diving. He is also an accomplished underwater photographer with a deep interest in cold, green water wreck diving.

Shortly after leaving the RAF in 2014, he delivered eight months of Well Operations Crew Resource Management (WOCRM) training and coaching to oil workers in an offshore environment, the results of which were presented by Gareth and Phil Smith (Managing Director of Critical Team Performance) at the oil and gas industry’s international (IADC Human Factors) conference in Houston. In June 2015, Gareth completed the TOP-SET three-day Senior Investigator root cause analysis course, considered an industry standard in Oil & Gas, heavy industry, and rail incident and accident investigation.

In 2012, Gareth started his PhD, examining the role of human factors in scuba diving incidents. He is published in a number of magazines and journals, has presented at nine international diving conferences on Human Factors in diving, and manages the Diving Incident and Safety Management System incident database.

He has recently been appointed Global Underwater Explorer’s Director for Risk Management, responsible for developing the performance of instructors and instructor trainers and building a Just Culture within this learning-cultured organization.

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Episode Sponsor

If you find this show adds value to you as a dive pro and you’d like to help support the show, please consider supporting it on Patreon. It’s only $4 per month – that’s only $1 per episode. When you become a supporter of The Dive Locker you’ll get a shout out from me on the next episode after you join. You will also be listed on the Patrons of Dive Locker Podcast webpage. And you will receive 10% off any ScubaGuru Academy course at the Patron level, and 20% off at the Rockstar level. And of course my undying appreciation for helping support the show.

https://www.patreon.com/thedivelocker

Thanks For Listening!

That’s it for today, everyone. Thank you so much for listening. Remember to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Stitcher, that way you’ll be notified of new episodes as soon as they go live and please leave a rating. Items talked about in this episode can be found on the show notes Page at scubaguru.com . There you can also click the microphone and leave us a comment. Thanks again. We’ll see you in the next episode. Safe diving and take good care of my friends.

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