In 2023 will the COVID pandemic be in the rear view mirror, just a footnote to history? Or will it still be disrupting our lives? Firstly its clear that COVID is endemic in almost all countries and will likely circulate and evolve for a very long time. Causes for Comfort in 2023 The current Omicron outbreak may give a..
Navigatus has reviewed the impact of COVID-19 border controls for aircrew in the Asia-Pacific region. The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade commissioned the research for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). In December 2020 the APEC member economies adopted the report and it was published by the APEC secretariat. The Navigatus report can be found in full..
With 93% of the population double-vaccinated, New Zealand is a vaccination success story. So what can we as risk managers learn about risk communication from this example? Most risk managers lean towards facts and figures from credible official sources as the way of assimilating and evaluating information. The problems come when we try to explain ourselves to a general..
Navigatus director, Kevin Oldham, reflects on risk management lessons learned from a brief stint as Gisborne harbourmaster. An unintended consequence of the Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) system was that Gisborne District Council faced a gap between harbourmasters in late 2021. The harbourmaster was leaving and the new harbourmaster, Peter Buell, couldn’t get an MIQ spot to arrive and..
A few days ago the last of the hexagonal primary mirrors snapped into place, moving from its launch position. https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/19/webb-mirror-segment-deployments-complete/. The Webb telescope has now completed the main phases of its operational deployment. What a relief to all those involved in risk management of this venture. While there is a way to go before the telescope mirrors are fully..
As New Zealand prepares to ease the lockdown, enterprises operating under COVID-19 Alert Level 3 need to work out how to do so safely. The core objective of Level 3 is to: enable more enterprises to resume, while protecting the health and safety of workers, and protecting the wider population from transmission and spread of the virus. We have..
The rapidly developing COVID-19 situation and talk of a possible / probable global pandemic, has made me reflect on my prior experience as the Manager of BCP at Air New Zealand back in the 2000’s – a period where, thanks to SARS and Bird Flu, the world learnt first-hand how the rapid rise of mass global travel had changed..
Everyone was confident that ABS would make a big difference to the risk of nose-to-tail car collisions. How wrong we were! I was initially astounded when the statistics were reported years ago: no difference in nose-to-tail crash rates. Why? “Risk compensation” the researchers said. It turns out that drivers of cars fitted with ABS were more confident of their..
