Aviation Safety Library

A Collection Of Articles, Papers, Presentations, And Online Courses

By TACG President Dr. Bob Baron

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Featured AeroSafety World Articles

Cockpit Discipline

The Toxic Captain

Double Trouble

Revisiting Human Factors

Flight Path-ogens

Data Delirium

Do The Right Thing

Speaking Of Errors

The Safety Space And Practical Drift

LinkedIn Articles

Aviation Safety Data Analysis Methods

Surprise And Startle

How Safe Is Safe?

Benefits Of Human Factors Training In Aircraft Maintenance

Pilot Mentorship

Instructor Versus Facilitator: What's The Difference?

An Aviation SMS Is Only As Good As The People Who Use It

Line Operations Safety Audit (LOSA) For Air Traffic Management

Measuring Safety Culture

SMS Within Small Aviation Organizations

Papers

Human Factors Subjects

To Err Is Human

The Tough Decision

Human Factors Training: How Do You know It's Working?

Human Factors Training: Think Outside The Box

Human Factors Training: Why The Stigma?

Human Factors Hotspots

Make Your Human Factors Recurrent Course Shine!

My Work Is So Meticulous, There's No Need To Check It!

The Little Things

Procedural Drift: Causes And Consequences

An Exploration Of Deviations In Aircraft Maintenance Procedures

Fatigue Risk Management In Aircraft Maintenance: An Update On A Complex Issue

The Safety Squeeze

Are We Connecting The Links?

Teaching Safety Culture In Human Factors Courses

Human Factors In Aviation Maintenance: A Look At The Fundamental Concepts

The Human Factors Funnel Model (HFFM): Another Window On Error Causation

Can You Live With It?

Failure To Follow Procedures

The Human Factors Ladder Still Needs To Extend Higher

Safety Culture Subjects

Aviation Maintenance: Turning A Profit V. Turning The Wrenches

Band-Aid Safety

Is Safety Part Of Your Organization's DNA?

Understanding The Role Of Safety Culture In The Aviation Environment

The High-Reliability Organization

The CEO As A Top-Level Hazard

The Organizational Accident. Or Not

Safety Culture

Safety Culture And Profit: Aviation's Continuing Organizational Dilemma

Us And Them

When National Culture Supersedes Safety Culture

Flight Operations Subjects

Competency-Based Training And Assessment (CBTA) Instructor Guidance

Reasons Why Airplanes Crash (Or Don’t)

Threat Management

Procedural Noncompliance: Why Pilots Don’t Always Play By The Book

Understanding The Line Operations Safety Audit (LOSA)

Our Experiences In Maintaining The 10 LOSA Operating Characteristics

Using Inferential Statistics In Line Operations Safety Audits To Generate Scientifically Based Conclusions And Recommendations

Approach With Caution

Incorrect Entries

When V1 Cuts Don't Cut It

Winds And Words

The End Of An Error

Applying Leadership Models In The Cockpit

Conflict In The Cockpit: Can't We All Just Get Along

Getting Fresh With CRM

Why Did You Go Around? You Wasted A Lot Of Fuel!

Buckle Up

A Review Of The Literature Pertaining To Decision Making In Aviation

The Cockpit, The Cabin, And Social Psychology

Pilots And Memory: A Study Of A Fallible Human System

Miscellaneous Subjects

Crossing The Line

The Air Traffic Controller Who Paid The Ultimate Price For A Systemic Failure

Production And Protection

Pathogens At The State Level: Look Out Below

What Is Performance-Based Oversight?

Get Out

Violated

Methods And Anecdotes For Better Learning

Perceptions Of Safety

Rethinking Human Error Statistics In Aircraft Accidents

Aircraft Accident Investigations: Have We Lost Touch With The Behavioral Approach

High-Profile Passengers, Acts Of God, And Preposterous Defenses In Civil Litigation

Presentations

Human Error As A Learning Tool

Improving Corporate Safety Communication

The Current State Of Airline Safety

A Summary Of Major Industrial Accidents

Building A Strong Safety Culture

Building A High-Reliability Organization (HRO)

The Management Of Change

How To Get Your CEO Onboard

A Practical Introduction To Human Factors

The Human Factors Funnel Model

Procedural Noncompliance: Why Pilots Don’t Always Play By The Book

Dana Airlines Flight 0992 Accident Case Study

One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 Accident Case Study

Qantas Flight 32: A Dirty Dozen Perspective

Safety Culture

Safety Promotion Is Key To An Effective SMS

SMS Or SM Mess? It’s Your Choice!

SMS Is A Process...Not A Book! (free video tutorial)

The Four Pillars Of Safety Management (free video tutorial)

Approaches To Safety (free video tutorial)

Human Factors And Human Error (free video tutorial)

Human Factors In The Hangar (free video tutorial)

Online Courses

SMS For Small Aviation Organizations

Safety Risk Management

The Dirty Dozen

Introduction To LOSA