Originally Posted by
kettlechips
If you were wearing a green shirt and crashed while driving home, does that mean wearing green is hazardous to driving?
A sample size of one means nothing. You're right, safety is not outcome based... It's based on many, many, many outcomes.
You are proving my point. This isn’t about sample size. I was giving just one hypothetical to illustrate how safety is not outcome based. Just because you made it home, doesn’t necessarily mean you were safe, regardless of what you were wearing.
Safety is about mitigating or managing risks. It’s about recognizing threats and errors, using CRM, standard/best practices, judgement, experience, skill, etc to trap them before you have an undesired aircraft state.