How did it all begin? Today, I want to discuss with you just how Human Factors training and the Dirty Dozen posters came to be.
My father, Gordon Dupont, is known as the founder of the Dirty Dozen and the following is how it all began.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
What is complacency? - It’s the self-satisfaction accompanied by a loss of awareness of the dangers.
Two very experienced AMTs (one with 22 years and the other with 33 years of experience) missed 140 cracks during a 100-hourly inspection. This resulted in one fatality and 95 people experiencing a very close call when 18 ft of fuselage went missing during a flight.
The whole world screamed, how could this possibly happen? How could these 2 men miss that many cracks?
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Whether you are a pilot or an aviation maintenance engineer, many tasks require focused attention to detail. It doesn't require a human factors training company to tell you that disastrous results may occur when workers are unable to maintain focus on their tasks.
Aviation safety managers must recognize how important a role distraction plays in their aviation safety management systems, particularly:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
So, just what is a Lack of Knowledge?
Any competent human factors instructor will tell you that "Lack of knowledge" is when you lack the knowledge to complete a task correctly. Many new employees have what we call a “Lack of Knowledge” or lack of experience.
Let’s face it, in these times of ever-changing technology, we are sometimes faced with a task without having all of the required information to correctly complete the task.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
So, just what is a Lack of Communication? In the simplest terms, it is a failure to ensure the “mental pictures” match.
For example, I have a mental picture of what I hope to convey to you. If you have the same mental picture at the end of our conversation then proper communication has occurred.
Many times in Aviation and in other areas of our lives we have conversations with each other and we both assume that we understand each other 100%,
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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