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== Understand How Disasters Happen ==
Except for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_God acts of god], disasters are preventable. A disaster is the outcome of a series of cumulative mistakes, human error that compounds an initial mistake. Once a threshold is reached in the cascading series of small events, disaster is almost inevitable.
The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic Titanic] is the iconic symbol of disaster. It was considered to be unsinkable despite obvious design flaws that were only admitted retrospectively.
