Simple Flying’s Post

Compliance is just a line in the rule book. Why do we stop there??? We need the courage and support to go further. Why aim for the stars when we stop at the moon?? Taking Safety Beyond Standards. Objective: zero accidents.

Standards are, by nature, carefully crafted and agreed by industry and authorities. They are a balance. A standard that's unduly prescriptive could be inefficient and incur major cost. Too ambiguous or not prescriptive enough and it defeats the object of minimum design standard. And that's the key - they are a balance of the two extremes and should always be considered the MINIMUM. So 'compliance' with safety standards is another way of saying 'doing the bare minimum to get by'. This post by Ian Goodwin of Airbus provides an excellent example of how a proactive design office proactively approaches its aircraft design safety. BLUF - in aerospace as in life - we can and should always do better than the minimum. Of course - the same principles apply to ICAO's standards and recommended practices (SARPS) for aerospace organizations and operations ...... which are the bedrock of most national regulations (such as US FAA Codes) ..... but that's another story for another time.

A really great piece about blameless postmortems and how the psychological safety to tell the truth leads to fewer mistakes and - in the case of the aviation industry - fewer lives lost. "It’s often much more productive to ask why than to ask who. [...] A just organizational culture recognizes that a high level of operational safety can be achieved only when the root causes of human error are examined; who made a mistake is far less important than why it was made." Exactly!

Yes, of course

This is pretty darn harrowing:

Really interesting article. Human error can and will creep in, and rather than seeking to assign blame if something goes wrong, it’s much more important to maintain open communication and to review and adjust the underlying system to ensure that such risks are accounted for and mitigated. https://lnkd.in/eEPJxuE8

A wide range of safety related issues for scale-up clients have come to the foreground of late. Some are related to products (autonomous vehicles, aerospace, social media and AI), others related to the workplace (genAI, RPA, physical manufacturing). Here is a public domain summary about some of the techniques and frameworks I've been counseling scale-up companies to consider if improvement in safety and safety-related quality is of interest.

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