We can learn a lot from Aviation Safety! I came across this 2017 presentation on Runway Safety Trends and Runway Incursion Analysis and just loved how they analyzed their data to identify the trends, causes, and contributing factors. Some of the data may be alarming, but that is not my intent. This is how we should be analyzing our data in industrial safety. It really drives home the SIGNIFICANCE of having near-miss incidents reported so they can be PROPERLY analyzed. Imagine if the FAA only had crash data to perform their analysis!! The only way a LEARNING CULTURE will take hold is to honestly analyze data without repercussions to those who report the incidents.
When we have incident reporting INCREASING and incident consequences DECREASING in both frequency and severity, ONLY then can be have some level of assurance that the safety process is working.
