Candra Schatz began her safety career in 2000 at American Airlines in Tulsa, OK, gaining experience in safety audits and compliance at the world’s largest aircraft maintenance base.  She specialized in human factors, safety culture, and behavior-based safety as well as lean manufacturing and process efficiency principles.  Candra supported innovative approaches to improving safety such as qualitative and quantitative safety culture assessments, a just culture policy and process for understanding errors and violations, a human factors program, and the full scale implementation of a federally approved safety management system at American Airlines.  She spent time as a facilitator, instructor, and leader, culminating her role at American Airlines as a leader of a large team of safety investigators that focused on safety and compliance root cause analysis investigations based across the United States.  In 2024, Candra transitioned into the role of Assistant Vice President, Safety and Leave Administration and DFW International Airport where she supports the occupational and fleet and driver safety programs, as well as the comprehensive workers compensation and disability/FMLA programs for DFW Airport Board employees