Creating a ‘Just Culture’

The idea of the ‘just culture’ has been around since the 1990s and was originally introduced to deal with blame culture situations, which has been found to significantly reduce error reporting in the workplace and has well documented negative safety and operational consequences.

A study just published by researchers from the Centre for Innovative Human Systems, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin surveyed more than 3000 aviation maintenance professionals in the US and Europe at an organisation that used the just culture safety ideology to see what real effects it was having.