It seems current logic is that there are few fatal accidents so everything is safe. The opening text to most occurrence reporting schemes however contains text similar to that below:
Experience has shown that accidents are often preceded by safety-related incidents and deficiencies thereby revealing the existence of safety hazards.
So what absolute facts do we have about incidents?
are incidents also as few as accidents?
Are incidents cause/repetitiveness properly and openly managed?
Do we actually have any idea at all of how safe the industry really is?
Shall we just respond to the headline fatal accident statistic?