What went right? An analysis of the protective factors in aviation near misses

Brian Thoroman; Natassia Goode; Paul M Salmon; Matthew J I Woolley

doi:10.1080/00140139.2018.1472804

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What went right? An analysis of the protective factors in aviation near misses

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What went right? An analysis of the protective factors in aviation near misses

Brian Thoroman, Natassia Goode, Paul M Salmon and Matthew J I Woolley

Ergonomics, Vol.62(2), pp.192-203

2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2018.1472804

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Abstract

incidents

near miss

aviation

accident causation

accident analysis

systems thinking

accident prevention

Learning from successful safety outcomes, or what went right, is an important emerging component of maintaining safe systems. Accordingly, there are increasing calls to study normal performance in near misses as part of safety management activities. Despite this, there is limited guidance on how to accomplish this in practice. This article presents a study in which using Rasmussen's risk management framework to analyse sixteen serious incidents from the aviation domain. The findings show that a network of protective factors prevents accidents with factors identified across the sociotechnical system. These protective networks share many properties with those identified in accidents. The paper demonstrates that is possible to identify these networks of protective factors from incident investigation reports. The theoretical implications of these results and future research opportunities are discussed.

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Title: What went right? An analysis of the protective factors in aviation near misses
Authors: Brian Thoroman (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Natassia Goode (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Paul M Salmon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Matthew J I Woolley (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: Ergonomics, Vol.62(2), pp.192-203
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Date published: 2019
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2018.1472804
ISSN: 0014-0139
Copyright note: Copyright © 2018 The Authors. This is an electronic version of an article published in Brian Thoroman, Natassia Goode, Paul Salmon & Matthew Wooley (2019) What went right? An analysis of the protective factors in aviation near misses, Ergonomics, 62:2, 192-203, DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2018.1472804 . Ergonomics is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2018.1472804
Organisation Unit: Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering; Faculty of Arts, Business and Law; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451115002621
Output Type: Journal article

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