Mariners have organizations that constantly survey conditions that will affect maritime travel and send Notice to Mariners regularly. Air travel has their own organization that sends constant Notice to Airmen reports. There are many organizations that monitor the conditions of each commercial industry. Executives would do well to subscribe to these reporting agencies and include their information in their strategic and tactical planning.

No matter how many safety programs you conduct, somebody is going to do something stupid. Sometimes damage to equipment or an injury occurs even when good people are doing the right thing. There needs to be a well-designed and well-rehearsed action plan for handling those incidents. Specific people should be assigned to specific tasks, for which they have technical ability, and have no operational tethers to prevent them from responding at a minute’s notice. Whether a personal injury or unfortunate incident, horrendous or routine, there must be a plan and that plan must be executed without delay. An after-action report should be made and based on that report, future action is to be determined.