Safety Culture: Focus on What Goes Right in Air & Space Law

1. International Air & Space Law Conference Gdansk, 15th November 2013 Frank Brenner Director General, EUROCONTROL

2. What isbelieved What issaid What isdone Safety performance What is safety culture? ‘The safety culture of an organisation is the product of individual and group values, attitudes, competencies and patterns of behaviour that determine commitment to, and the style and proficiency of, an organisation’s health and safety management’ Advisory Committee for Safety on Nuclear Installations (HSC, 1993, p. 23) Frank Brenner, Director General of Eurocontrol - Gdansk International Air & Space Law Conference, 15th November 2013

3. Key questions • Are people part of the problem or part of the solution? • Does it make sense to focus almost entirely on the tiny proportion of things that go wrong and to ignore the vast majority of things that go right? Frank Brenner, Director General of Eurocontrol - Gdansk International Air & Space Law Conference, 15th November 2013

4. Safety II – Focus on what goes right Safety-II looks at what happens from the side of safe functioning. The success case When the focus is on that which goes right (everyday performance), ‘failures’ no longer dominate the picture. Frank Brenner, Director General of Eurocontrol - Gdansk International Air & Space Law Conference, 15th November 2013

5. From Safety I to Safety II Frank Brenner, Director General of Eurocontrol - Gdansk International Air & Space Law Conference, 15th November 2013

6. International Air & Space Law Conference Gdansk, 15th November 2013 Frank Brenner Director General, EUROCONTROL