Introduction It is considered that Errors and violations together form the unreliable part of our human performance. Moreover, that 70-90 percent of current aviation incidents & accidents are due to in some part to “human factors.” Errors and violations contribute to accidents both directly and by making the consequences of other problems more serious. An…

The Role of Maintenance Error Management Systems (MEMS) The ability of the organisation to investigate Maintenance Error is a valuable tool to understand causal, contributory and root elements and to develop and provide appropriate mitigation’s to reduce ongoing exposure. If we wish to minimize re-occurrence we should not only address the root cause (or causes)…

Sometimes to implement solutions related to human errors may require substantive changes to the organisational system. This may require changes to shift working to alleviate the potential of fatigue, or to change how the shift handover is delivered. Managing error may also be re enforced by the introduction of error tolerance procedures into the working…