Learning From All Operations: Flight Safety Foundation Conceptual Framework

The briefing will describe the Flight Safety Foundation conceptual framework and common language for safety learning. The new framework is needed because the existing language of safety is predominantly built around learning from failures and cannot express learning from success. However, the new framework is unitary - it is not just a new framework to learn from success, but it is an integral framework to learn from all that happens. The integral nature of the framework has also another dimension - it allows the relationship between safety and system objectives like efficiency to be made explicit. This lays the foundation of an approach that can best balance safety and system objectives like efficiency and sustainability. The framework is based on case studies and practical experience from the front-line professionals from aviation organisations, including Lufthansa, American Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways.