The ORCA Project: Operational Resilience and Cognitive Awareness

The course will address issues surrounding diving incidents and fatalities. Discussion of human factors concerns will be a part of the course.

Price:

• Non-Member: $200.00
• Regular UHMS Member: $155.56
• Associate UHMS Member: $111.12

Estimated time to complete this activity: 8 hours

Termination Date: January 17, 2026

Schedule:

Objectives:

1. Define what we mean by human factors, why we use them, provide a brief introduction to the Human Factors Analysis and Coding System (HFACS) and an introduction on how to employ HFACS for operational success.
2. Define error and violation as causes of accidents.
3. Distinguish the countermeasures appropriate to prevent error and violation.
4. Present checklists as a powerful countermeasure for error.
5. Draw on evidence from healthcare that proves checklists prevent harmful error.
6. Discuss the characteristics of checklists likely to be most effective in preventing diving accidents.
7. Broadly describe how choice-making education differs from other instruction and how the PADI system addresses this in recreational diving.
8. Explain the challenges to good decision making in recreational diving.
9. Describe a reasonable approach to further reducing recreational diving's very low incidence rate, the evidence supporting the approach and why different dive communities likely need different approaches.
10. To offer an objective look at how UTD, as a scuba training and certification agency has, since we started, been teaching human factors as part of every student’s curriculum.
11. Outline the new Diving Incident Reporting System (DIRS) at Divers Alert Network, DAN’s vision and role in injury monitoring.
12. Understand the US Navy’s approach to safety & risk management.
13. Recognize potential applications and limitations for improving recreational diver safety.
14. Understand that human failure is present in all domains.
15. The best performing organizations are pre-occupied with safety.
16. Understand barriers to failure are Recognition, Recovery and Resilience.

CONTINUING EDUCATION (If you attended this program in person on May 22, 2022, you will not be eligible for continuing education credit again):

Designation Statements:

Physician CME: The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing CEU: Approved license types: Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner; Clinical Nurse Specialist; Licensed Practical Nurse; Registered Nurse; Certified Nursing Assistant; Respiratory Care Practitioner Critical Care; Respiratory Care Practitioner Non-Critical Care; Registered Respiratory Therapist; Certified Respiratory Therapist. This enduring material is approved for 8 contact hours by the Florida Board of Registered Nursing Provider #50-10881.

Accreditation Statement: The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Disclaimer: The information provided at this CME activity is for Continuing Medical Education purposes only. The lecture content, statements or opinions expressed however, do not necessarily represent those of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.

Full Disclosure Statement: All faculty members and planners participating in continuing medical education activities sponsored by Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society are expected to disclose to the participants any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies. Full disclosure of faculty and planner relevant financial relationships will be made at the activity. 

Disclosures: All individuals in control of content for this educational activity with their relevant financial relationship disclosed are listed below (if applicable). An individual who refuses to disclose relevant financial relationships will be disqualified from being in control of educational content at any time, and cannot have control of, or responsibility for, the development, management, presentation, or evaluation of the CME activity.

Financial relationships are relevant if the following three conditions are met for the individual who will control content of the education:

• A financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company.
• The content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship.
• The financial relationship existed during the past 24 months

“None of the individuals in control of content (planners/faculty/reviewers/authors) for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.”

There are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to mitigate for this educational activity.

No commercial support was received for this educational program.