Reducing Airport Accidents: turning safe into safer

摘要

Where safety standards are high, they can rise even further. But the rewards can be greater for raising them where they remain low. Aviation safety figures continue to improve, but the improvement rate is slowing down. Certainly part of the slowdown, as I see, is the result of the law of diminishing returns. Is there anything left, then, for the commercial air transport industry to do to make safety better without the need to invest big money for small returns? Plenty, as I see - it is an ever-evolving process. Even where safety standards are already good, the industry is still working with organisations, such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FM),to refine safety strategies to produce further improvement.