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Applied human factors in aviation maintenance
Patankar, Manoj S., 1968-Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.Written as a companion to 'Risk Management and Error Reduction in Aviation Maintenance', this text focuses on data from the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System to illustrate how human factors principles and error reduction techniques should be applied to minimize error-inducing conditions.
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Risk management and error reduction in aviation maintenance
Patankar, Manoj S., 1968-Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2004.Although several US and European airlines have started providing human factors training for their maintenance personnel, the academic community (some 300 academic programmes in the United States and several others in Europe and Asia) has not yet started offering formal human factors education to maintenance students. The authors of this work strongly believe in incorporating the human factors principles in aviation maintenance. This is the first of two volumes that provide effective behavioural guidance on risk management in aviation maintenance for both the novice and the experienced maintenance personnel. Its practical guidelines assist both student and practising aviation maintenance personnel to develop sustainable safety culture. For the maintenance community it provides some theoretical discussion about the "why?" for risk management and then focuses on the "how?" to implement a successful error reduction programme. The book is intended to serve as a practical guide as well as an academic textbook. It covers fundamental human factors principles from a risk management perspective and due consideration is given to cultural diversity, return on investment analysis and safety culture development.
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Safety ethics : Cases from aviation, healthcare, and occupational and environmental health
Patankar, Manoj S., 1968-Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.Much of the previous literature in the field of safety focuses on either the technical equipment issues or the human performance factors that contribute to the active failures in safety-critical systems. However, this book provides guidance in the moral or ethical aspects of decision-making that perpetuate many of the latent failures in safety-critical systems. The book presents an interdisciplinary discussion of ethical decision-making and discusses the need to teach ethical decision-making in professional academic programs. It provides a concise introduction to the ethical foundations and follows up with case studies from aviation, healthcare, and environmental and occupational health. These cases illustrate the challenges faced by the individuals in their respective field and the reasons for the choices that they made in the face of adversities. Safety Ethics gives a fascinating insight into ethical decision-making for all those interested or involved in safety-critical environments. The book will be an extremely valuable guide for professionals in making decisions consistent with their beliefs and code of ethics.
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