Seven Essential Principles of Aviation Safety Leadership

Aviation executives and leaders play a critical role in building and strengthening resilient organizations that can adapt to industry challenges, mitigate risks proactively, and sustain a strong safety culture while balancing operational efficiency and innovation. By embedding safety as a core organizational value, executives and other leaders create resilient organizations capable of long-term success.

The Foundation has developed the “Seven Essential Principles of Aviation Safety Leadership,” which is a blueprint to help aviation organizations embed safety into governance, culture, and strategy. The principles are distilled best practices that underpin robust safety cultures and effective safety management systems, and they offer a roadmap for elevating leadership in complex operations.

To accelerate adoption of the principles, the Foundation is launching a global campaign that engages the entire aviation community — front-line professionals, supervisors, managers, executives, and boards. The campaign will include webinars, workshops, surveys and engagements. The Foundation will host a series of polls and dialogues on social media designed to identify what works, reveal gaps, and develop shared benchmarks.

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