Routine violations
Violations of the established rules, procedures, and standards have also been a source of human-related errors in the aviation industry. While many violations occur, routine and exceptional are the most popularly associated with accidents. For this reason, having a comprehensive evaluation of these violations can shed some valuable insights concerning their correlation with mishaps.
Routine violations. Popularly known as bending the rules, this type of error often one of the chief causes of accidents in the aviation industry. While individual operators perpetrate routine violations, they are mostly tolerated by systems of supervision and management that allow such departures from the established guidelines (Shappell et al., 2007). In this sense, this violation is habitual in nature because the governing bodies do not have a problem with its execution. Placed within the context of air transport, some regulators may allow operators to fly aircraft that have been grounded because of their safety concerns. For example, some countries such as the united states were not quick to ground the Boeing 737 Max planes after being declared unsafe in most jurisdictions. Such action highlight how some authorities may tolerate the violation of laws or regulations for selfish economic interests.
The second form of violations that may cause serious safety concerns is known as bending the rules. Violations of this nature are mostly tolerated because they are not considered dangerous to the safety of aircraft (Shappell et al., 2007). Many airlines allow their operators to disregard some rules to get some job done. Feedback from LOFT programs reveals that such kinds of violations occur on a daily basis with no negative consequences (Shappell et al., 2007). In effect, some human errors may not produce undesired outcomes. Nonetheless, some concerns remain about this trend because no one knows how such violations will react with potential future factors. Therefore, while such violations are yet to be associated with negative outcomes, they may backfire in the future.
Exceptional violations. Like routine violations, exceptional violations have been found to contribute to human errors in the aviation sector. However, this type of violation manifests itself in the form of isolated departures from the established rules and regulations (Shappell et al., 2005). In this sense, such violations take place without the authorization of the responsible authorities. For example, flying under a bridge in dangerous and prohibited maneuvers would amount to exceptional violations. Nevertheless, not all violations fall under this category because they are considered extreme. Instead, violations are regarded as exceptional if they are not typical of the operator and are not condoned by the regulatory authority (Shappell et al., 2005). Given this unique conceptualization, exceptional violations can be significantly difficult to predict.