About Dan
Dan Graham is a highly experienced disaster risk reduction professional, with a particular passion for water & flood safety/rescue. His track record of delivering high-quality consultancy, and engaging training courses stretches back over 20 years. He regularly teaches technical rescue and safety courses for a wide range of clients across the world. He was previously based in the Rohingya Refugee Response in Bangladesh, working to provide firefighting, flood safety and SAR training to the Bangladeshi and Rohinyga refugee populations, which resulted in co-developing the largest refugee-led firefighting service in the world. He has recently achieved Distinction for a Masters in Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development at the University of Newcastle, Australia, which is co-certified by UNITAR and UNDRR.
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Consultancy Services
Aquatic Risk Management
Dan is used to working with clients of all sizes, and developing reasonably appropriate solutions to aquatic risk management. Starting from the principle that it is possible to do your activity in a safe way, and working to develop systems that enco...
Occupational Water Safety
Dan has years of operational experience of occupational water safety in industrial settings. From providing safety cover for bridge inspections, access for engineering works, or flood safety work in emergency situations. Dan brings a wealth of know...
Event Water Safety
Dan has a long track record of providing event water safety cover at a wide variety of events at a both a tactical level, and a strategic level. From a small local sprint triathlon, to the European Games. From a simple open water swim, to high leve...
Resource development – aquatic safety
Dan is an prolific author of a huge variety of instructional and academic texts on aquatic safety and rescue. As an experienced instructor, he is well used to tailoring materials to suit the intended learning outcomes, assessment criteria, and the ne...
Portfolio
Blog Posts

30 Jun
The Rohingya refugee and Bangladeshi host community population in Cox’s Bazar district are extremely vulnerable to the ... Details

25 May
Warming cold swimmers (not hypothermia)
This article is written for rescuers/helpers when a swim has not gone to plan and the swimmer has got a little colder a... Details
Filling the #DisasterGap in Bangladesh