Safety climate of a commercial airline: A cross-sectional comparison of four occupational groups

Safety Climate of Ab-Initio Flying Training Organizations: The Case of an Australian Tertiary (Collegiate) Aviation Program

“…It also supports similar studies conducted in the airline environment where junior flight crew perceived a more positive safety climate than their senior colleagues (Gao et al, 2013;Gao, Bruce, & Rajendran, 2015). Compared with the effect of training experience measured by flight hours, which was not found to be significant, it is worth noting that in a tertiary aviation program, students' learning and teaching activities are organized by year groups.…”

The effect of a safety crisis on safety culture and safety climate: The resilience of a flight training organization during COVID-19

“…Safety is important in a high-risk industry such as the aviation industry. Gao et al (2015) found that safety climate of the commercial airline under investigation was perceived to be strong across all four professions (pilots, cabin crew, engineers and ground operations). Respondents were willing to report incidences, perceived a commitment of senior management toward safety, and felt they had access to current safety-related information.…”

The effect of an embargo, sanctions and culture on safety climate: A qualitative view from aviation maintenance in the MENA region

“…In a recent extensive review of the safety climate literature drawing on 494 articles Bamel et al (2020) suggest that existing studies emphasize two distinct antecedents, either leadership and management or perceptions of safety rules, resources, risk, and employee involvement. Since Zohar's early work, many different safety climate scales have been developed for use in surveys of employees (e.g., Glendon & Litherland, 2001;Evans et al, 2007;Kines et al, 2011;Gao et al, 2015;Chen et al, 2018). Typically, safety climate scales assess employees' perceptions of these two antecedents through such measures as management commitment to safety, safety communication, work pressures, safety training and safety rules, procedures, and policies.…”

“…Safety climate perceptions have been investigated among different professional groups within aviation, for example amongst commercial pilots in Australia (Evans et al, 2007;Gao et al, 2015), ground handlers in Spain (Diaz & Cabrera, 1997), and also personnel in aviation maintenance organizations in Ireland (McDonald, et al, 2000). While the aviation sector strongly supports a global standard for safety (ICAO, 2006a), the national culture of the countries in the aforementioned studies is relatively similar, and none of them are LMICs.…”

“…Common measures of safety climate found in existing studies were re-phrased as open questions to permit the exploration of participants' perceptions. The questions focused in particular on safety rules and procedures (Zohar, 1980;Glendon & Litherland, 2001;Lin et al, 2008;Gao et al, 2015;Parker et al, 2017), on safety communications (Curcuruto, et al, 2018;Huang, et al, 2018;Cheng, 2019;Zohar & Luria, 2005;Evans et al, 2007;Lin et al, 2008;Olsen et al, 2010;Lu & Yang, 2011;Kines et al, 2011;Huang et al, 2013;Gao et al, 2013), on accountability and responsibility for safety of self and others (Ghahramani & Khalkhali, 2015;Cheng, 2019;Lu & Shang, 2005), and on management commitment to safety (Kines et al, 2011). In addition, the interview questions covered demographic details (including job title, position, age, type rating, years of experience).…”