Books
Paradoxes of Accountability
Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
Dekker, Sidney. Aldershot, Hampshire, England, and Burlington, Vermont, U.S.: Ashgate, 2012. Second edition. 171 pp. Figure, table, references, index.
It has been four years since the publication of the first edition of Dekker’s Just Culture (ASW, 4/08, p. 53). The author says that the first edition was partly a response to the trend of criminalizing aviation accidents. Although criminalization remains a serious issue and has a place in this second edition, he has shifted his emphasis to the struggle within organizations to understand, create and maintain a just culture.
“Many of these organizations have found that simplistic guidance about …
