Social Science Literature: Safety Culture Definition In Aviation

1. Safety Culture Definition in Aviation

Safety culture is a term that nearly everyone uses but few can agree upon its precise meaning or how it can be measured. The social science literature offers an abundance of definitions, which is not particularly helpful, but taken together they suggest that the elements of a safety culture can be sub-divided into two parts. The first comprises the beliefs, attitudes and values – often unspoken- of an organization’s membership regarding the pursuit of safety. The se-cond is more concrete and embraces the structures, practices, controls and policies that or-ganizations possesses and employs to achieve greater safety (James Reason & Alan Hobbs 2003, 145).
A safe culture is the “engine” that continues
These samples can be risen however, nowadays it is considered that safety culture still is the most important problem in order to set up safety management system (Ender Gerede, 2012). Since safety culture is almost the root cause of the errors which are occurred by based on general system (James Reason, 2013,
There is however no specific requirement regarding Safety Culture in the EASA rules other that a general provision in the EASA Basic Regulation re-garding the need to install ‘a culture of safety’ (Piers, Montijn & Balk, NLR 2009, Safety Cul-ture Frame Work for the ECAST-WG).
Nevertheless, a strong Safety Culture is generally considered as a vital condition to a well-functioning SMS. It is sometimes said that is it is well possible to have a good Safety Culture without a formal SMS, but is not possible to have an effective SMS without a good Safety Culture. For this reason, the SMS Working Group of ECAST has been tasked to propose Safety Culture reference material.
As Safety Culture is still an emerging issue and since the introduction of the ICAO and EASA Safety Management requirements will expedite Safety Culture activity across Europe.
2.1.2 ECAST’s Proposed Safety Culture