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Need to gain ground quickly in changing your safety culture? Transform your internal evaluation program (IEP) into a highly effective...

Congratulations on making your SMS more proactive by implementing an Internal Evaluation Program (IEP)! By now, you have probably visited...

Many organizations promote areas such as health, diversity, and fair labor practices but fail to remember a vital area - social...

I recently finished a course through the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) called Airport Certified Employee (ACE) -...

Mention the acronym “GUMPS” to just about any fixed wing pilot and watch their eyes move upward and to the right. Their neurolinguistics...

What exactly is sustainability? When you hear the word sustainability, do you immediately think of climate change, recycling, and a...

The FAA’s website reports there are nearly 1.7 million Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) or “drones” registered in the U.S. and projections...

Jennifer Caron, FAA Safety Briefing Copy Editor, stated in her recent article “Show Me the Data!” that “To improve safety we need to...

There has been a lot of research on organizational citizenship behavior, which can be defined as employee extra-role behaviors performed...

There is, without a doubt, a lot of training that takes place across all functions in the aviation sector. When we are first hired we are...

Leading our companies through the disruption of a pandemic is not an easy task, even for the nimblest organizations. One lesson of the...

We are asked quite often for a detailed explanation of how to manage change and why we must do so in an aviation organization. The...

We are all susceptible to it. You know, when something new and shiny comes along we have a tendency to think that the novel solution will...

I have read quite a few good books over the last decade, but few have had a profound effect on me like Simon Sinek’s Start with Why....

In his 2009 treatise on the last 30 years of safety climate research, Dov Zohar (2010) called for the next phase of research focus into...

In order for any team to work efficiently within a complex environment such as the flight deck or an organization with multiple...

Sometimes I like to get nostalgic and think of the days when I was actively flying as a corporate pilot. One of the things I remember is...

During the global financial crisis of 2008, former President Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously remarked that, “You never let a...

I have served as a Part 119 director of safety for multiple FAA Part 121 supplemental carriers. I recall asking myself the question,...

In our last blog, we framed the safety management tenet of sharing selflessly and stealing shamelessly. I proposed that this safety...