Human Factors and Operational Risk Management

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Learn about human performance and systems analysis for aviation incidents and accidents, including the effect of such analysis on organizational culture. Review how physiological and psychological factors occurring during aviation operations can affect human performance. Using case studies, discover how traditional methods of accident investigation apply to or detract from human performance and systems analysis. Learn to recognize conditions that have deleterious effects on aviation outcomes and how they can impact the safe outcome of emergency response missions.

This scenario based course focuses on the interrelationship of Just, Flexible, Reporting and Learning cultures and how they can affect and be affected by human performance; how and why many accident investigations identify human failures or errors and what the search for cause can do to organizational culture; how human performance evaluations can be improved; the knowledge, skill and ability to recognize how conditions support mishaps and how to take corrective action; and cultural factors that affect decision making at all levels.

Guest lecturers will join the instructor to provide additional depth to course materials.