Crew resource management (CRM) training for flight crews is widespread and has been credited with improving aviation safety. As other industries have adopted CRM, they have interpreted CRM in different ways. We sought to understand how industries have adopted CRM, regarding its conceptualisation and …

Automation surprises in aviation continue to be a significant safety concern and the community’s search for effective strategies to mitigate them are ongoing. The literature has offered two fundamentally divergent directions, based on different ideas about the nature of cognition and collaboration with …

In their initiatives to achieve organizational safety goals, managers, but also members of safety institutes – such as regulators – often seem to follow what in the military might be called “normaltaktik” or “order-type tactics”. Also military attitudes towards safety seem to resemble and reinforce normaltaktik. …