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Publications (Books/Chapters, articles, & conference presentations)


Books/Chapters:
Crichton, M., & Flin, R. (2002). Command decision making. In R. Flin & K. Arbuthnot (Eds.), Incident command. Tales from the hot seat. (pp. 201-238). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
Crichton, M., Lauche, K., & Flin, R. (2008). Learning from experience: Incident management team leader training. In J.M. Schraagen, L. Militello, T. Ormerod, & R. Lipshitz (Eds) Naturalistic decision making and macrocognition. Aldershot: Ashgate
Flin, R., & Crichton, M. (2004). Risk based decision-making: Mitigating threat - maximising opportunity ( HC 1078-1). London: National Audit Office.
Flin, R., O'Connor, P., & Crichton, M. (2008) Safety at the sharp end. A guide to non-technical skills. Aldershot: Ashgate
 
Articles:
Crichton, M. (2001). Training for decision making during emergencies. Horizons of Psychology, 10(4), 7-22.
Crichton, M. (2005). Attitudes to teamwork, leadership and stress in oil industry teams. Safety Science. 43(9), 639-750
Crichton, M. (2008). Improving team effectiveness using Tactical Decision Games. Safety Science, 47(3), 330-336
Crichton, M., & Flin, R. (2001). Training for emergency management - Tactical Decision Games. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 88(2-3), 255-266.
Crichton, M., & Flin, R. (2004). Identifying and training non-technical skills of nuclear emergency response teams. Annals of Nuclear Energy, 31(12), 1317-1330.
Crichton, M., Flin, R., & McGeorge, P. (2005). Decision making by on-scene incident commanders in nuclear emergencies. Cognition, Technology & Work, 7(3), 156-166
Crichton, M., Flin, R., & Rattray, W. A. (2000). Training decision makers - Tactical Decision Games. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 8(4), 208-217.
Crichton, M., Lauche, K., & Flin, R. (2005). Incident command skills in the management of an oil industry drilling incident: A case study. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 13(3), 116-128, Sep 2005
Crichton, M., Ramsay, C.G. & Kelly, T. (2007). How to carry out an emergency exercise - A consistent approach to design, planning and implementation in multi-agency contexts. Nuclear Energy Review, Issue II
Crichton, M., Ramsay, C., & Kelly, T. (2009) Enhancing organisational resilience through emergency planning: Learnings from cross-sectoral lessons. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 17(1), 24-37
 
Conference presentations:
Bayerl, P.S., Lauche, K., Crichton, M., Sawaryn, S. & Deady, A. Exercises in distributed tactical decision-making in advanced collaborative environments. In Proceedings of the 2009 SPE Digital Energy Conference & Exhibition, Houston, TX, 7-8 April
Crichton, M. (2003). Decision making by on-scene incident commanders - the role of expertise based on normal operational role. Paper presented at the 6th Naturalistic Decision Making Conference, Pensacola Beach, FL.
Crichton, M. (2003, 8-11 September). Decision making by Operational Incident Commanders - decision strategy selection. Paper presented at the Human Factors of Decision making in Complex Systems, Dunblane, Scotland.
Crichton, M. (2006). Stress in the oil and gas drilling industry. Paper presented at the 6th Congress on Work and Organisational Psychology, Leipzig, May.
Crichton, M. (2007). Tactical Decision Games for teams: putting theory into practice. In Proceedings of the 8th Naturalistic Decision Making Conference, Asilomar, CA
Crichton, M., & Kelly, T. (2008) "How to" design, plan and implement a Radsafe exercise. Paper presented at the RE08 Conference, Moreton-in-Marsh. November
Crichton, M., & Kelly, T. (2008) Nuclear emergency preparedness: A template for other industries? Paper presented at the Dealing with Disasters Conference, Cardiff, June
Crichton, M., Henderson, W. G., & Thorogood, J. L. (2004, 26-29 September). Command Skills for Drilling and Completion Teams: Managing the Unexpected (89901). Paper presented at the SPE Annual Technical Congress and Exhibition, Houston, TX.
Crichton, M., Lauche, K., & Flin, R. (2005). Learning from experience: Incident management team leader training. In Proceedings of the 7th Naturalistic Decision making Conference, Amsterdam, NL.
Crichton, M., Rattray, W., & Flin, R. (2000, 26-28 May). Training decision makers - Tactical Decision Games case studies. Paper presented at the 5th Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, Stockholm, Sweden.
Lauche, K., Crichton, M., & Bayerl, P.S. (2009) Tactical decision games: Developing scenario-based training for decision-making in distributed teams. In Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making. London. June
Lauche, K., Bayerl, P.S., & Crichton, M. (2009) Scenario-based training for distributed teams: Design principles and example from the oil & gas industry. Paper presented at the EAWOP Conference, Santiago, April.