Safety Risk Management and Safety Culture Why
Accidents Happen.
Welcome back to all my fellow folks who read my
safety blog, so, today I’m writing this interesting issue regarding why
accidents happen?
All people who fly and airplane ask what is
important about human factors and the role of the pilot flying a plane.
Accidents statistics seem to indicate that
pilots do not have the appropriate tools to deal with their own roles in the
cockpit. So, all pilots are trained to handle emergencies, such as engine failure
or any electrical system failures, but they are sometimes no trained to handle
the internal and external factors that act them.
But, how does safety culture of any
organization affect the policy and implementation of its safety management
system to avoid and stay away of incidents and accidents?
Measuring a safety culture inside any group is
very important, but how do you measure a safety culture in an organization?
There are subcultures in any huge organization
based on geography, other leadership styles and even which shift a person works.
In my personal view and experience, to effectively
measure a safety culture, the cultural norms of the organization must first to
be identified, and them there must be and extensive examination of how the management
team respond to errors.
Safety Risk Management is another important
issue, in an effort to assist all aviation companies all around the world, to understand
why accidents happen in any organization.
To recall and refresh all pilots who read my safety
blog, the most common, and specific causes of accidents, in order of incidence
and regularity, are:
·
Loss
of directional control.
·
Poor
Judgment.
·
Airspeed
not maintained.
·
Poor
preflight planning and poor decision making.
·
Clearance
not maintained.
·
Inadvertent
stalls, very important.
·
Poor
crosswind handling.
·
Poor
inflight planning and decision making.
As every pilot see here, almost all of these
are a result of poor pilot performance, but not necessarily of a result of any
equipment malfunction, So, this is why Safety Risk Management and Safety
Culture is very important to understand the role and importance of effective
safety risk management and incident investigation in a functioning safety
management system works.
Always keep in mind that flying is about people,
much more so than about machines. To avoid any incident or accident increasing
your awareness of human strengths will make you a safety pilot at all time you flying
your airplane.
Always fly safe!
