A personal thought on positive safety improvements. In order to produce the posts for this website, it is necessary to review safety incident reports, watch documentaries on disasters, read reports from the Federal Aviation Authority and study many more sources of relevant information. Often, my wife and family will ask, “why do you watch this? Read more about A Friday thought on positive news[…]
One of the most powerful leadership tools available to a manager is to listen to a concern from a team member, act upon it and fix it. When looking to implement a behavioural safety program or introduce new initiatives around behavioural safety, I have often heard managers say things like, ‘this is too sophisticated for Read more about A Friday thought on safety leadership[…]
Not only are they not a 1990’s Italian house music band, they are not even black! Air crash investigations often hang on the outcome of a review of the black box recorder. Unlike any other industry, the air travel industry actual invest in incident investigation before any accident has occurred. The black box device is Read more about A Friday thought on the Black Box[…]
To err is human. On the 6th June 1992, Copa flight 201 ended in the worst air disaster in Panama’s history. The flight bound for Cali, Columbia came down in the jungle killing everyone on board. Initial thoughts centred on the possibility of a collision with a drug running aircraft or a bomb on board. Read more about A Friday thought on rule based errors[…]
A key task for you as a manager, is to ensure that your team see themselves as leaders and realise the power that they have. We have published a few articles lately on how our failure to maintain high standards can negatively influence the behaviour of others. Check out our posts on broken windows and Read more about A Friday thought on leadership behaviours.[…]
Ultimately almost everything comes down to behaviour. When I studied for my Psychology degree many years ago, I reached the conclusion that pretty much everything ultimately came down to behaviour. If you have an earthquake and a building collapses, you could blame the earthquake. But in reality, a human designed a building that couldn’t withstand Read more about A Friday Thought on Behavioural Safety[…]
The broken windows theory originated in criminology. It was based on the norm-setting and signalling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behaviour. So in other words, if minor crimes are seen as being allowable, this sets a new norm. With this baseline set, the leap to more significant crimes is not Read more about Broken Windows[…]