Safety Forum 2025 THEME: People in the Centre of Aviation Safety

A holistic and proactive approach to mental health, well-being, fatigue and workload management.

 The 12th Safety Forum is scheduled for June 5–6, 2025, at EUROCONTROL headquarters in Brussels. The Forum is organised by the Flight Safety Foundation in partnership with EUROCONTROL and the European Regions Airline Association.  

The Organizing Committee invites submissions to present as a speaker. Submissions should provide fact-based insights or proven practical approaches to holistically and proactively address mental health, well-being, fatigue, and workload management.

Possible Presentation Topics

  1. What can front-line operators do before a mission to help them handle what happens during and after that mission?
  2. How can organizations support the capability for resilient performance in their front-line operators?
  3. How can we distinguish “resilient performance” from “silent endurance” before the tragedy occurs?
  4. What are the policy, regulatory, and cultural roadblocks to learning about mental health and well-being in the aviation industry?
  5. How can organizations and front-line workers successfully manage pressures to do more, limit costs, and stay safe?
  6. What is the right balance between individual, team, and organizational strategies for managing mental health, well-being, fatigue, and workload?
  7. Nature versus nurture in resilient performance: What is the optimal balance between selection, screening, and development when addressing mental health, fatigue, and workload management?
  8. What are the tensions between short-term and long-term approaches to managing mental health, well-being, fatigue, and workload? How can these tensions be effectively addressed?
  9. Understanding and managing “burnout”, neurodivergence, depression and addiction?

Submit your Presentation

The Event Organizing Committee will only consider submissions received using this form.

We use the online platform, JotForm for submission collection. You will be prompted to create a free login when you click the button above.

🛈 Presentation submission deadline:  February 1, 2025

What to Expect

  1. Receipt of your submission will be acknowledged via email.
  2. All submissions will be reviewed independently by a team of reviewers. The outcome of the selection process will be communicated by March 1, 2025.
  3. If selected, your presentation time slot will be 20 minutes plus 8 minutes for Q&A.
  4. If selected, your PowerPoint presentation must be received by May 6, 2025.
  5. All presentations delivered during the 2025 Safety Forum will be video recorded. The purpose of these recordings is to publish them in full length on SKYbrary for the benefit of the aviation community. All speakers will be asked to sign a video recording consent form and a presentation release form.  A PDF of the presentations (that are approved for release only) will be provided to attendees post-event.

🛈 If you experience any problems with this form or have any questions, please contact the Event Organizing Committee: safety.forum@eurocontrol.int or Eleanor Campbell:  campbell@flightsafety.org.