Aviation and Human Factors: How to Incorporate Human Factors into the Field – PDF

Air travel is currently safer than ever before, with lower probabilities of accidents than winning jackpots in major lotteries. However, maintaining or enhancing this level of safety requires a critical analysis of infrequent incidents that indicate structural failures in the learning process. Without a clear and appropriate developmental approach, the impact of these failures could increase rapidly. The eBook, Human Factors in Aviation: Incorporating Them into the Field (PDF), seeks to identify deficiencies, explain why there are areas to improve, and offer human factors principles to uphold in aircraft design and operations.

The eBook comprises the following features:

• • Proposes ways to improve the human factors aspect by deriving lessons from recent events.
  • Explores the use of information technology in safety-critical environments and the insufficiency of procedural knowledge.
  • Illustrates, through various events, how the aviation system learns through technology, practices, and regulations, depicting the traps of this learning process.
  • Portrays air safety management as a successful process, while also exposing the failures resulting from technological and organizational features.