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. 2011 Mar;89(1):4–38. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0009.2011.00623.x

Table 2.

Relative Importance of Counterheroism, Common Knowledge, and Ergonomics to Each Initiative Listed in Table 1

Counterheroism (Overcomes Excessive Individualism) Common Knowledge (Imposes or Enhances Group Knowledge) Ergonomics (Careful Design to Overcome Human Error)
1. Checklists ••• •• ••
2. Crew resource management •••
3. Joint safety briefings •••
4. Minimum safety requirements ••• ••
5. Sterile cockpit rule •• ••
6. Alternation of roles •••
7. Standard layout •••
8. Black box •• ••
9. Corporate responsibility for training •• ••
10. First-names-only rule •••
11. Incentivized no-fault reporting
12. Bottle-to-throttle rule ••
13. Mistake-proofing •••
14. Forcing functions •• •••
15. Flight envelope protection •••

Key: •= low, ••= moderate, and •••= high relative importance of the theme for each initiative, as perceived by the authors.