Cultural elements – instructive material

ICAO safety management obligations, incl. safety culture: ICAO Annex 19 - Safety Management (Second Edition)

• link to ICAO’s Annex 19 page

ICAO’s safety management material, including plenty of guidelines for considering the elements of safety culture in all areas of safety management: ICAO Safety Management Manual Doc 9859 (Fourth Edition):

• link to ICAO’s Safety Management Manual page

ICAO’s Safety Management Implementation page with a separate section discussing safety culture

• link to ICAO’s Safety Management Implementation page

ICAO’s guidelines for considering human factors in safety management: Manual on Human Performance (HP) for Regulators Doc 10151 (First Edition)

• link to ICAO’s Human Performance and Human Factors page

Occurrence reporting obligations in EUR-Lex, the EU’s website on legislation and court documents:

• Occurrence Regulation (EU) 376/2014, link to the Eurlex page

EASA’s Regulations pages, containing obligations and instructions for occurrence reporting and safety management

• link to the Regulations page

EASA’s Safety Management & Promotion pages

• link to the EASA Safety Management & Promotion page
• link to the EASA Conversation Aviation Magazine 02-2023-publication, with current information also on safety culture issues

Eurocontrol Safety Culture discussion cards. Here, you can find discussion card editions 1 and 2. Edition 1 is also available in Finnish:

• link to Eurocontrol’s Safety Culture discussion cards in Skybrary

Eurocontrol’s Just Culture pages

• link to Eurocontrol’s Just Culture pages

SM ICG’s safety culture guidance material for aviation organisations: Industry Safety Culture Evaluation Tool and Guidance:

• link to SM ICG’s Industry Safety Culture Evaluation Tool and Guidance page

SM ICG’s guidance material for aviation authorities: Organizational Culture Self-Assessment Tool for Regulators:

• link to SM ICG’s Organizational Culture Self-Assessment Tool for Regulators page

Other guidance material produced by SM ICG in Skybrary:

• link to SM ICG’s page

The Skybrary website contains a large number of aviation safety information. Skybrary has separate pages for themes such as Safety Culture and Just Culture (under Enhancing Safety). The Human Performance page contains several subpages concerning human factors.

• link to the Skybrary site

The Finnish Aeronautical Association’s (FAA) Club-SMS is a safety management system for aviation clubs.

• link to FAA’s Club-SMS page (in Finnish)

One of the outcomes of the national project on the safety of general and recreational aviation (2015) was the Safe operations model for aviation clubs (Turvallisen toiminnan malli ilmailukerhoille, TTM) created by Traficom, FAA and AOPA Finland. The aim of the model is to support aviation clubs’ internal safety work and provide them with tools and instructions.

• link to the TTM page (in Finnish)

• Research and development project of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health: ProHF – Human Factors in Safety Management – Impact and Effectiveness of Intervention
  • link to the ProHF research page (in Finnish)
• Study of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health: Developing a safety culture survey method (PDF, in Finnish)