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An Essential Shift
Safety Culture: Building and Sustaining a Cultural Change in Aviation and Healthcare
Patankar, Manoj S.; Brown, Jeffrey P.; Sabin, Edward J.; Bigda-Peyton, Thomas G. Farnham, Surrey, England and Burlington, Vermont, U.S.: Ashgate, 2012. 258 pp. Figures, tables, references, index.
For most of aviation history, safety progress took place on two fronts: improved technology and regulation derived from lessons learned through accident investigation. Enormous advances have resulted. But while technology and regulation still have a role, they appear to have reached a point of diminishing returns.
“In the early years of aviation, most of the accidents were attributed to unreliable technology,” the authors say. “As the technical reliability improved … the complexity of challenges increased; and as the business of air travel became more complex, the improvements in technology alone were no longer sufficient to …
