University of North Dakota Researchers Add New Findings in the Area of Risk Management [Understanding the relationship between High Reliability Theory (HRT) of mindful organizing and Safety Management Systems (SMS) within the aerospace industry: …]: Insurance – Risk Management

2022 JUN 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Fresh data on risk management are presented in a new report. According to news reporting out of Grand Forks, North Dakota, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “There seems to be a paucity in extant literature that assesses the relationship between Safety Management Systems (SMS) and High Reliability Theory (HRT) behavior process of mindful organizing (MO) among aerospace organizations.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from University of North Dakota: “There could be benefits for organizational safety by exploring this relationship in high-reliability organizations (HROs) like the aerospace industry. Using a modified Safety Organizing Scale (SOS) by Vogus and Sutcliffe (2007) and a validated SMS scale, the relationship between SMS and MO was measured. The perceptions of a cross-section of respondents from commercial airlines with SMS and commercial space licensees without SMS in the United States (U.S) was assessed. A four-factor model of MO had acceptable fit. A model showing the relationship between SMS and MO had good fit and showed a high significant strength of relationship (r = 0.82, p = 0.000) with a big effect size. There were also significant differences in mean responses among management personnel and non-management personnel on the MO factor ‘sensitivity to operations’ and the result suggests managers were better at identifying personnel with skills and knowledge to ensure safer task accomplishment than non-management personnel.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The study results suggest that the SMS requirements for commercial airlines in the U.S. can enrich the identification and understanding of MO factors and it may be beneficial for the commercial space industry to formally adopt SMS. Future research studies may include direct comparisons in multiple aerospace organizations using a larger sample size to determine the overall understanding of MO factors and how it affects SMS.”

For more information on this research see: Understanding the relationship between High Reliability Theory (HRT) of mindful organizing and Safety Management Systems (SMS) within the aerospace industry: A cross-sectional quantitative assessment. Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, 2022,3(2):105-114. The publisher for Journal of Safety Science and Resilience is KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnlssr.2022.01.002.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Brian Eugene Teske, Department of Space Studies, John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, University of North Dakota, 4149 University Avenue, Stop 9008, Grand Forks, ND 58202-9008, United States. Additional authors for this research include Daniel Kwasi Adjekum.

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