Aviation safety and astronautics safety are taught as technical subjects informed, for the
most part, by quantitative methods. Here, as in other fields, safety is often framed as an …

Aviation is a system of systems. Maier (1998) characterised a 'system of systems' as
possessing five basic traits: operational independence of elements; managerial …

Safety is more than the absence of accidents. Safety has the goal of transforming the levels
of risk that are inherent in all human activity, while its interdisciplinary nature extends its …

There is a difference between systems thinking and sociotechnical systems thinking, the
former being an engineering approach (with the focus being largely on the technical …

The world of safety for professionals can often be unclear. In an industry that divides the
safety world into one of two camps, either traditional or contemporary safety, the lack of …

Safety is frequently addressed as an emergent property of complex and dynamic systems.
This contribution advocates the validity and importance of incorporating intrinsic …

In August 2014, a special issue of Safety Science contested the foundations of safety
science as a scientific domain on methodological, theoretical and philosophical grounds …

Commercial space research is different in many ways when compared to space research
historically conducted by military and governmental space organizations. Differences in …

The models we currently use to understand aerospace safety and accidents are based on a
structuralist vocabulary, with mechanistic metaphors that describe the internal workings or …

Publisher Summary This chapter intends to contribute a “systems perspective” in aviation
system but, given the often varied and vague use of the term, it starts by examining its …