Performance management for continuous innovation in high risk industries

Purpose and goal

The project Performance management for continuous innovation in high risk industries, has been support to establishing the concept of Säkra Förbättringar. This means safety assurance of improvements made, due to risk control. Managing and evaluating change is seldom paid enough attention in safety risk management, however, this is essential to demonstrate safety performance. Safety management system, SMS is today a new requirement for all aviation stakeholders today. This project also supported a netoworks to continue reserach nationally and internationally.

Results and expected effects

This project had objectives at three levels. 1.Meriting a researcher at a personal level 2.Development of a specific research strand in the field of Human Factors 3.At an applied level this project will contribute aviation industry. The project has been meriting by the researcher being a visiting scholar, participating in conferences and writing articles, networking for future funds and collaborations and recruiting a PhD student. These results contribute to the three objectives. The researcher became associate professor in 2012 and may 2014 apply for promotion to ´docent´.

Approach and implementation

The project has been an integrative part of other linked and overlaping research in EU-projects. The project directly facilitated a visiting scholar position at UC Berkeley and research with NEXTOR at Institute of Transportation studies and Centre for Catastrophic Risk Management. Literature studies were conducted within industrial management and safety science. Applied research has been conducted in close collaboration with a Swedish airline. This made it possible to significantly contribute to their SMS and knowledge relevant to Swedish industry.