Expect the Unexpected

Bas Poelmann started his career in the Dutch armed forces, serving as an officer in the Royal Netherlands Army for several years after completing the Royal Netherlands Military Academy. In 2006, he started working for Falck, further developing skills in safety and Emergency Response training. He specialized in Scenario Based Training, a form of training in which immersive scenarios are used to train Emergency Response personnel from primarily offshore installations and ships. Together with a small team operational crisis management courses were developed, again both for the offshore and shipping industry. Bas trained and coached Falck’s crisis management trainers and developed Emergency Response and crisis management training programs for strategic level in high risk industries. Arjan de Pauw Gerlings is senior crisis management trainer at Falck Safety Services. As a Certified Crisis Management Professional, he is involved in the development of crisis management training courses for operational, tactical and strategical levels and recently developed a crisis management training for the maritime world. Together with Bas Poelmann he provides these programs at the training facility in Rotterdam, on the assets or at head offices around the world.