The challenge in changing the culture of an established organization, as Tom Howell comments in the LinkedIn group America’s Aviation Safety Management Solutions Forum, is possible but only with focus from the top. Quite often change at the top enables change management across the organization. When there are no management-change reason to trigger a change in culture to make focus on safety as the core, all too often the trigger is a major accident or event.
Change after an event is too late, as we know and reactive change can have seriously detrimental effects on the organization, the people and all stakeholders.
Somehow, – whether it is the company Board of Directors, peer pressure, associations or the enlightened hiring of strong, focused personnel into the safety role – something needs to trigger change to focus on predictive risk as a foundation for company survival. The economic interests of the company and its stakeholders are at risk unless the change is made in the management of the business based on professionalism and safety.
Sextant Readings Solutions – aviation professionals with focus on Compliance, Quality Management and Quality Assurance, Safety and Risk Management for the Aviation Industry, is an IS-BAO Support Services Affiliate and IS-BAO safety consultant and Auditor