Safety Culture
Following Uberlingen and Milan accidents, EUROCONTROL led a programme of work which initially borrowed safety culture skills from the nuclear power domain, and adapted them for air traffic control organisations (air navigation service providers, or ANSPs). This was a non-mandatory programme, and starting out with just three ANSPs back in 2005, it caught on, and today 33 countries have undertaken safety culture surveys, many several times. They do so because it is one of few means to really determine the state of safety culture in an organization. As Knut Skaar, then CEO for Avinor in Norway once told his fellow CEOs, “If you want to find out your real risks, do one of these surveys.”
Future Sky Safety has adapted the safety culture approach for wider use in aviation, applying it fully in airlines (Easyjet and KLM), six organisations at London Luton Airport in the UK, and inside a major airframe manufacturer. It is hoped that other organisations try it and realise the benefits. The guidance and links in this part of the website are there to help companies understand more about the process, what it entails, and what it can deliver. If however, an organization wishes to proceed, it is recommended to contact a professional in this area, whether via this website’s contact page, or by seeking out companies or universities who specialize in the area.
EXECUTIVES
“How do I know the true status of safety culture in my company?”
MIDDLE MANAGERS
“What are the safety culture issues in my department?”
STAFF
“How do I get my voice heard on what I really think about safety in the organisation?”
“Safety culture means that I do it right when no one is looking.”
“It is not a question of having, or not having, safety culture; if you want a good safety picture, you have to have it.”
“On being asked why Skyguide got into safety culture, the response was: “Why wouldn’t we? A Safety Management System is important, but without a positive safety culture it is useless.”
“AVINOR was to some extent a guinea pig for the survey process back in 2007, but incidents were going up, and we needed to do something different.”
“It has changed the way the Executive Board deals with safety. Now, we do really try and drive safety culture from the top.”
Find out more about Safety Culture
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SAFETY CULTURE
We can help you in measuring what is your safety culture level
with our customisable electronic questionnaire
We launched a safety culture survey to
We asked questions like
THE RESPONSE
THE RESULTS
The industry is overall doing well, with an average score of 3,49, on a scale from 1 to 5.
THE RESULTS
The industry is overall doing well, with an average score of 3,49, on a scale from 1 to 5.
THE RESULTS
There are areas of excellence like “Colleague Commitment to Safety”
THE RESULTS
But there are also some areas eligible for improvement, like “Fatigue”.
THE RESULTS
Here are the results of the survey questions related to this area
THE RESULTS
Here are the results of the survey questions related to this area
THE RESULTS
Here are the results of the survey questions related to this area
THE RESULTS
Here are the results of the survey questions related to this area
THE RESULTS
Here are the results of the survey questions related to this area
We explored whether pilots working at different companies had
diverging perceptions of safety culture.
THE RESULTS
The band between 2,5 and 3,5 is the
band of average performance.
THE RESULTS
Higher than 3,5 means that a certain area is reported to be
very well performing
THE RESULTS
Lower than 2,5 means that a certain area is reported to be
performing poorly.
THE RESULTS
The figure below reports Colleague Commitment to Safety,
which is quite high for most respondents from different companies.
94% percent of companies had mean scores above 3.5,
and the range was 3.39 to 4.48.
THE RESULTS
The figure below reports on Fatigue, which is
lower than 2,5 for 25% of companies.
THE CONCLUSIONS
Overall the results were positive,
showing where safety culture is strong for pilots,
but also highlighting areas where it is at risk.
WE CAN DESIGN AND DELIVER A SAFETY CULTURE QUESTIONNAIRE
FOR SINGLE ORGANISATION AS WELL