The safety - productivity balance and its association with human factors and safety awareness and communication

Background - Continuous growth of aircraft manufacturing business - Human Factors & Safety education/training and communication are vital elements to manage this growth effectively Literature suggests that: - Productivity increases with more comfortable and safer working environment - Knowledge on human factors not always transformed into practice - Safety skills are mostly developed through experience - Inevitable trade‐offs amongst multiple objectives generate dilemmas and ambiguities - It is necessary to achieve a productivity‐safety equilibriu