Why Accidents Happen?

Safety Risk Management and Safety Culture 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 post, 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 Safely!