IN TODAY’S SAFETY CULTURE, zeroing in on the “who and what” of unsafe acts has become the new priority—again. Companies have been working
overtime to arrive at
a common safety destination, or to target specifi c safety practices in an eff ort to reduce the number of incidents. Yet, injuries still occur and aircraft are still damaged. So what about the safety program itself? Could it be that a company’s safety program is now the new root cause or the top event in a bow-tie diagram? Maybe we need a safety program for the safety program.