Some more quotes for you safetypee:
“Human error is a symptom of trouble deeper inside a system”
“a good safety culture is one which allows the boss to hear the bad news.”
Dr. Sidney Dekker
“Honest and critical self-assessment is one of the most powerful tools that management can employ to measure flight safety margins.”
Flight Safety Foundation Icarus Committee May 1999.
“Every accident is a failure of organization.”
“Errors…are shaped and provoked by upstream workplace and organizational factors. Identifying an error is merely the beginning of the search for causes, not the end.”
James Reason, Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents, 1997.
“…we need to change one of the biggest historical characteristics of aviation safety improvements - our reactive nature. We must get in front of accidents … anticipate them …and use hard data to detect problems and disturbing trends.”
FAA Administrator Marion C. Blakey Charting the Next Century of Aviation Safety North American Safety Conference Atlanta, Georgia Feb 5, 2003
Air-hag, ‘euros’ are not afraid of visual approaches; they just don’t make so many mistakes when the weather is bad.