Human and
Organizational Factors - Taking account of human and organizational factors in safety
management practices.
Develop
valid and practical means of incorporating the assessment of human and organizational
factors in decision-making.
| Initiative |
Status |
| Establish a regulatory
framework instilling human factors awareness in aviation organizations |
Regulatory requirements for human factors training in Approved Maintenance
Organizations (AMO) have been published in Standard 573 - Maintenance.
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| Incorporate human and
organizational factors knowledge requirement in aviation licensing |
New training standards, which integrate human factors, are being
developed.
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| Amend the Aeronautics
Act to allow regulation of duty times for all aviation personnel |
Amendments to the Aeronautics Act have been drafted and are on the
federal legislative agenda for 2004.
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| Institute a
human/organizational factors training standard for targeted aviation organizations |
Safety promotional products address relevant
human factors. |
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Evaluate research on
fatigue in support of developing standards, guidance material and safety promotion
programs |
- Phase I of Research on hours of work for Aircraft Maintenance
Engineers (AMEs) was conducted and a final report has been published.
- Phase II of research, a review of fatigue sensitive tasks, has been
completed.
- Phase III, the development of Fatigue Risk Management Program (FRMP)
guidelines is underway.
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| Develop a model
incorporating analysis of human and organizational factors in safety oversight activities |
Analysis of human and organizational factors
will be addressed as part of the Safety Information Management System
(SIMS). |
| Provide
human factors training to all Civil Aviation safety inspectors |
A human factors module has been developed for the Delegated Officers
Initial Training (DOIT) course
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Human performance and organizational factors are routinely assessed throughout
the aviation community.
