Where Birds Don't Fly

Organizational factors, or organizational influences affects organizational culture, safety policy, processes, and acceptable work practices.  Fallible decisions of upper-level management directly affect supervisory practices as well as the conditions and actions of the crews. Unfortunately, these organizational influences often go unnoticed or unreported by even the best-intentioned accident investigators. Traditionally, these latent organizational failures generally revolve around three issues, which are resource management, organizational climate, and operational processes. Resource management is the management, allocation, and maintenance of organizational resources, including human resource management (selection, training, staffing), monetary safety budgets, and equipment design (ergonomic specifications). In general, corporate decisions about how such resources are centered around safety and compliance cost-effectiveness in operations. In times of prosperity, both safety and ...