Safety Chats Podcast
Welcome to Portside Safety Chats, a podcast for people responsible for keeping flight operations safe, compliant, and moving forward. Hosted by Todd Thomas and Anne Marie Sollazzo, each episode features practical conversations about safety management, reporting, and real-world challenges across aviation. Tune in for timely topics, thoughtful insight, and clear takeaways you can actually use, all in under 30 minutes.
Safety Chats Podcast
Normalization of Deviance
This week we discuss how little events lead up to big events. Specifically, as we go through the work day, we may minimally adjust and alter what we're doing. Each little change is a step down the path of deviance. The further we go, the more an action is normalized. As we continue on this course and away from procedures and policies, we are normalizing our deviant behavior. Check out how this is related to the NPRM.
Link to article: Harvard Business Review, by Catherine H. Tinsley, Robin L. Dillion, and Peters M. Madsen, April 2011
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