While an increasing number of healthcare providers are purchasing surgical robots because
of anticipated improvements in patient outcomes, their implementation into practice is highly …

Gender is encoded in multiple technological infrastructures, most prominently in digital forms
across educational, commercial, medical and governmental contexts. To illustrate the …

Safety within aviation is defined by the effective management and mitigation of risks
associated with aviation activities, encompassing direct aircraft operations and supporting …

This special issue focuses on the foundations of safety science. Topics discussed are:
scientific diversity and fragmentation within safety science; beyond diversity, some …

Establishing an oversight system is an important step in ensuring maintenance safety,
reliability, and profitability. The implementation of internationally-accepted criteria is required …

In this study, the duality of adaptive capacity in aviation safety is examined, where the need
for resilience of frontline workers conflicts with the expectations and assumptions of …

As Karl Weick has stated, abductive thinking is crucial to making sense of the unexpected.
Understanding the role of abductive thinking has relevance for many sides of safety work …

Objective: Based on the line operations safety audit (LOSA), two studies were conducted to
develop and deploy an equivalent tool for aircraft maintenance: the maintenance operations …

This article presents the results of survey-based research which explores if licensed aircraft
maintenance engineers working in Norway, Sweden, and Portugal experience regulated …

Disengaged employees cost US companies billions of dollars annually in lowered
productivity, a cost which has been compounded by the difficult economic situations in the …