NASA’s approach to Risk, Culture and Leadership – Some insights

This webinar, hosted by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, will provide a fascinating look inside how NASA manages risk, ensures that its culture supports safe human spaceflight and provides extraordinary leadership to explore the unknown.

Aims

To explore NASA’s approach to risk management and safety culture, demonstrating how effective leadership fosters an environment where every team member’s expertise is recognised, encouraged, and leveraged to enhance safe and reliable performance

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar, attendees should be able to:

• Understand the universality of risk: To recognise that risk is an inherent feature of all complex systems and tasks including across aerospace, healthcare, and other high-stakes environments.
• Examine the role of leadership in shaping safety culture: To understand how expert leadership develops, nurtures and sustains a robust safety culture that supports effective risk management.
• Apply cross-industry lessons to healthcare practice: To identify practical insights from NASA’s approach to safety and teamwork and to consider how leaders in health and care can empower teams, enhance organisational learning and reduce the risk of harm.

Register here.