The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety. — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share
The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety. — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization. — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
