The effect of management practices on aircraft incidents

Criteria Conundrum: Engineering Students’ Beliefs about the Role of Competing Criteria in Process Safety Judgements

“…As a part of this project, we developed a conceptual framework around criteria that engineers consider through their process safety judgements: safety, leadership, relationships, production, spending, and time (Table 1). These criteria emerged from process safety literature and Chemical Safety Board (CSB) case studies [5]- [8] as well as non-engineering industries that rely on practitioner judgement [2], [3], [10], [32]. Moreover, this conceptual framework has been leveraged in other recent works regarding engineering students' judgements [33]- [35].…”

“…These incidents can have devastating repercussions, potentially resulting in injury or fatality of personnel [1]. Incident reports and literature suggest that many of these incidents may be attributed to poor judgements where engineers must juxtapose conflicting criteria (e.g., choosing between prioritizing greater safety or higher production) [1]- [10]. Although educators have built process safety content into the undergraduate engineering curriculum [11], [12], not much is known about how engineers will reconcile their learned safety-conscious values from process safety courses with their actual judgments in real-life industrial contexts.…”