Paradise Helicopters Safety Survey

Mindful of Danger: Our company's management is very mindful of the human and organizational factors that can endanger our operations.

Mission Statement: Our company illustrates its commitment to safety in its mission statement that includes the call to operate safely.

Safety Policy: Our organization has a safety policy that is readily visible to all and spells out everyone's reponsibilities toward safety.

Accepts Setbacks: Our company's management understands and accepts occasional setbacks and nasty surprises as inevitable. They realize that staff will make errors and trains them to avoid, or detect and recover from them.

Committed: Our company's management is genuinely committed to aviation safety and provides adequate resources to serve this end.

HF Training: Our company, all employees, including management are trained in human factors in order to learn how to avoid the error they never intend to make.

Events Reviewed: In our company, past events are thoroughly reviewed at top level meetings and the lessons learned are implemented as organization wide reforms, not local repairs.

Improved Defense: After an incident in our company, the primary aim of management is to identify the failed system defenses and improve them, rather then to seek to divert responsibility to the incident individuals.

Date: Our management recognizes that effective management of safety, just like any other management process, depends critically on the collection, analysis and dissemination of relevant information.

Health Checks: In our company, management adopts a proactive stance towards safety. That is, it does some or all of the following:
a) Takes steps to identify recurrent error traps and remove them,
b) Strives to eliminate the workplace and organizational factors likely to provoke error,
c) Brainstorms new scenarios of failure,
d) Conducts regular "health checks" on the organizational process known to contribute to incidents.