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# Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash
- URL: https://werd.io/why-youve-never-been-in-a-plane-crash/
- Published: 2024-01-29T14:28:57.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-29T14:28:57.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

A really great piece about blameless postmortems and how the psychological safety to tell the truth leads to fewer mistakes and - in the case of the aviation industry - fewer lives lost.

"It’s often much more productive to ask why than to ask who. \[...\] A just organizational culture recognizes that a high level of operational safety can be achieved only when the root causes of human error are examined; who made a mistake is far less important than why it was made."

Exactly! [#Business](https://werd.io/tag/Business)

\[[Link](https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/why-you-ve-never-been-in-a-plane-crash)\]