ABSTRACT
This research maps out differences in safety perspectives, the Traditional and Resilient, respectively, across the civil aviation industry in Europe and the Americas. We surveyed 705 aviation professionals to determine whether they agreed or disagreed with the human factors and safety assumptions currently dominant in the aviation industry’s tools and methods. The results show variations in perspectives according to the national culture and occupation of the respondent. We also discovered that non-experts in human factors (HF), ergonomics, or safety may indiscriminately and unconsciously use HF ideas from a variety of (sometimes conflicting) safety models or paradigms. The results of this study can help Resilience Engineering researchers and safety managers to better understand the point-of-view of practitioners who use their tools and models.
