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  • Recorded Seminar
  • Incident Management

Incident and Crisis Management: Working Together To Bring Order To Chaos

Incident and Crisis Management are sometimes blurred together. It is important to keep them separate but appreciate their commonalities.

  • By Tim Coombs
  • Mar 29, 2021

Incident and Crisis Management: Working Together To Bring Order To Chaos

In this seminar, Tim Coombs and Rose Buse explain why both Crisis and Incident Management are essential for responding to major events, how escalation is managed and the role of liaison between the different teams to enable them to achieve their objectives.

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Tim Coombs

Tim joined OSRL with 22 years as a Marine Engineering Technician in the Royal Navy and is experienced in Gas Turbine Propulsion and Hydraulic Systems. Having completed 14 years as a Chief Petty Officer, he brings experience in engineering and leadership to the company. 

Since joining OSRL Tim has also been in the position of Workshop and Maintenance Supervisor and responded to spills in Australia, India, Gibraltar and the UK, as well as the 2010 Macondo incident in the Gulf of Mexico and more recently to Gabon, Africa as a Technical Advisor.

As a Principal Trainer Tim has delivered training in West and Central Africa, South America, Falkland Islands, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan (where he also responded to an incident), Germany, Holland, Gibraltar and the UK.

Tim holds the position of Chair for OSRL’s Incident Management System (IMS) Core Group which specialise in emergency management systems used around the globe and has delivered training in this subject to several of our members.

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