Human Factors

Do Organisational Quality Systems understand their role and responsibilities?

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May 13, 2014

sofema

Just as important do Organisational Quality systems understand the role of 147 training organisations. The is some concern in certain quarters regarding a shortfall in competence amongst senior aviation personal particularly persons who are nominated as post holders. Lets clear the air!

Aviation Train the Trainer – Developing your Training Skills

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April 10, 2014

Steven Bentley

This Blog looks at the Challenge of Training Adults in Aviation  –  In fact how we should deal with the specific needs of the Adult Audience. Adults do not learn in the same way that children learn, they have to perceive a need to know! The following looks at some of the specific challenges and…

Managing Aviation Maintenance Error

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January 02, 2014

sofema

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…

Aviation Maintenance Error Decision Aid Training(MEDA)

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December 16, 2013

sofema

Historically incident and accident investigation where skewed in the direction of understanding the employee who made the error “The Culprit”. Without a MEDA type process the organization typically lacks the management processes to deal with the employee in a “Just and Fair” way, often resulting in discipline which may be considered unfair and often results…