Safety prejudices, training practices, and CRM: A midpoint perspective

Problems in the application of data from accidents and incidents in the des ign of crew training are discussed. An alternative approach, monitoring nor mal operations, is proposed and described. Criticisms of the usefulness of crew resource management (CRM) training based on accidents are considered, and the importance of normal process monitoring for evaluation of CRM effic acy is discussed. Error-prone people do, of course, exist, but they seldom remain at the haza rdous sharp end for very long. Quite often, they get promoted to management . (Reason, 1997).