Relationship between safety culture and psychosocial working environment in air traffic control

The Swedish Air Navigation Service Provider in cooperation with the University of Lund aims at developing a model for supporting continuous improvements and learning focusing on safety in air traffic control. This paper focuses on relationships between the safety culture and the psychosocial working environment. These areas were studied using questionnaires at the two main air traffic control centres in Sweden and a part of the central civil aviation administration. The results showed that some associations exist between the two concepts and that this was true within all three study locations.