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Maybe we should get rid of Just Culture by Paul Reuter

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  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/maybe-we-should-get-rid-just-culture-paul-reuter Don’t get me wrong ,  I still think that Just Culture as a concept and especially the introduction of a definition of Just Culture in regulation EU376/2014 has been a milestone in flight safety. However, I have come to the conclusion that we have fallen short of exploring the whole potential of Just Culture, or for that, Culture in general. In 2015, the EU Commission took the initiative to elaborate, together with industry stakeholders, the  “European Just Culture Declaration ” a document full of worthwhile statements, but, which , at best, has been given barely more than lip service by large parts of our industry. Of course, when you ask organisations, they all profess that they have a “Just Culture” or a “Safety Culture”. What most of them mean, however, is that they have transposed the provisions of EU 376/2014 and the definition of Just Culture into their documentation. (They most certainly have a “sa