
Driving Enhanced Safety Performance
The global aviation community is in an unprecedented position to achieve a step change in improving safety performance. A convergence of key initiatives is forming a strong foundation to achieve…
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The global aviation community is in an unprecedented position to achieve a step change in improving safety performance. A convergence of key initiatives is forming a strong foundation to achieve…
by Gretchen Haskins
Procedures, policies and checklists are an effective way to ensure safety-related tasks are being conducted in a standardized, pragmatic way. They also are, in many cases, a regulatory requirement. But…
by Robert I. Baron
A small widget fails deep in the core of a complex mechanism flying through the skies. A chain of events follows, ending with a crew of professional pilots and cabin…
by Conor Nolan
As you may know by now, there has been a paradigmatic shift in identifying the causal factors that lead to aircraft accidents. Initially, accidents were primarily attributed to proximal factors…
by Robert I. Baron
Why might U.K. law have an impact on the global aviation industry?
by Dai Whittingham
Maintenance human factors sometimes is discussed as if the concept is radically new. Three generations ago, in the late 1940s, it was recognized that it was a designer’s obligation to…
by Andy Evans
Safety management systems (SMS) can be misunderstood, and the more civil aviation authorities can harmonize SMS requirements, the better for global aviation safety and industry organizations — in particular, for…
by Régine Hamelijnck and Amer Younossi
Recent missteps in accident response have fueled calls for global reorganization of SAR.
by Brian Day
In everyday operations, aviation organizations operate in what is known as the “safety space.” The safety space is a continuum between baseline performance on the left of the continuum and…
by Bob Baron
For those who manage risk in aviation organizations, it can be irritating when simplistic news reports start hitting the street about who is “No. 1 in airline safety.” While the airlines…
by Mark Millam