
Many aviation organizations claim to have a healthy safety culture, including a just culture. Some organizations are correct in their assessments, which have been verified objectively by internal and external measures. In other cases, however, organizations may think they have a healthy safety culture, but in fact, they are way off the mark. This may not be an intentional misdiagnosis, but rather an assumption based solely on metrics such as a low accident/incident rates and/or a lack of safety issues being reported on a regular basis. It is easy to see the problem with this way of thinking.