You have been tasked by divisional leadership in your aviation company with developing a human factors program for your specific area (i.e., flight operations, aircraft maintenance, ramp operations, FBO, etc.). What are some of the most important elements that need to be present in your human factors program?

Question

What specific strategies would you use to address each applicable element? Example: What would you do specifically to get the employees in your division/department onboard with the HF program?
In answering this question, speak generally about the basic aspects of virtually any human factors program (i.e., support of leadership and employees, an HF “champion,” investigation process, etc.), and then be as specific as you are able in applying to a department or division within an aviation company.

Answer 1

Open-ended discussion that may include a voluntary reporting system, an investigation process, error identification and reduction strategies, a human factors training program, employee support and involvement, leadership support and involvement, fatigue management, hazard identification and reporting, risk assessment and mitigation, etc.

Open-ended individual answer that should encapsulate many of the elements covered in Chapters 5 and 6.

Open-ended individual answer that should encapsulate many of the elements covered in Chapters 5 and 6.