We report from the fourth HeliOffshore Conference and AGM on ‘Delivering Our Priorities’ for improved offshore helicopter safety.
“Delivering Our Priorities”: HeliOffshore 2018 Conference Report Read Post »
Is complacency really more about risk perception and tolerance? The RAIB recommend leadership, people management and risk perception development to address complacency.
Complacency: A Useful Concept in Safety Investigations? Read Post »
David Marquet describes a technique developed while CO of the nuclear submarine USS Santa Fe, to reduce errors and increase mindfulness during critical tasks.
Deliberate Action: A Mindful Method from the Nuclear Navy Read Post »
Aerossurance is pleased to support this Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors (CIEHF) conference at Gatwick 13-14 November 2017.
How do we Improve Human Performance in Today’s Aviation Business? Read Post »
We report from the third HeliOffshore Conference and AGM on deepening commitment and collaboration to improve offshore helicopter safety.
Deepening Delivery: HeliOffshore 2017 Conference Report Read Post »
On the anniversary of the ‘miracle on the Hudson’ we look at how a catastrophic double engine bird strike in North America had been predicted 8 years before, in 2001.
Power of Prediction: Foresight and Flocking Birds Read Post »
Research into Safety Mindfulness aims to create continuous safety knowledge loops within/across the different layers organisations.
HROs and Safety Mindfulness Read Post »
It is vital for companies operating in the less stable of overseas locations to have pre-arranged evacuation arrangements in place.
Planning for Mass Evacuations Read Post »
An EU aviation research project has recently investigated the concepts of organisational safety intelligence and executive safety wisdom by interviewing 16 senior industry executives.
Safety Intelligence & Safety Wisdom Read Post »
Aerossurance is pleased to support this Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors event at East Midlands Airport, 7-8 November 2016.
Aerossurance Supports 2016 HF in Aviation Safety Conference Read Post »
We report from the second HeliOffshore Conference and AGM on commitment and collaboration to improve offshore helicopter safety.
Offshore Helicopter Safety Performance: 2016 HeliOffshore Conference Report Read Post »
Aerossurance Marks RAeS 150th Anniversary by Sponsoring Rotorcraft Automation Conference The Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) was founded on 12 January 1866, so is today celebrating its 150th anniversary (or sesquicentennial). To mark this significant milestone Aerossurance is pleased to be sponsoring the Society’s 2016 Rotorcraft Conference. This conference, to be held 6-7 July 2016 at the
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UK Offshore Helicopter Safety Action Group (OHSAG) October 2015 Minutes The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has just published the minutes of the 16 October 2015 meeting of the Offshore Helicopter Safety Action Group (OHSAG). This is the third and last of the year (compared to six in 2014), postponed from July 2015. The OHSAG was formed as a result of the ‘Civil
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We look at some of the problems of error management and ask if we are still making the error management mistakes James Reason warned of in 1997 (spoiler: some organisations are). We also look at drift and how some have failed to grasp its more than poor compliance.
Back to the Future: Error Management Read Post »
We look at how people really learn. Formal pre-fab classroom training is the least effective method. So why do we do waste so much time and money on the ‘Great Training Robbery’? We show there is a better way: 70:20:10.
Coaching and the 70:20:10 Learning Model – Beyond Training Read Post »
HeliOffshore Progress One Year On We first reported on the plan to create HeliOffshore in June 2014. HeliOffshore was formally launched on 21 October 2014 in London and held its first AGM and conference in Lisbon in May 2015. When membership was opened up beyond helicopter operators in January 2015, Aerossurance is pleased to have been one
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Aircraft Maintenance: Going for Gold? We pose the question: Can aviation maintenance learn lessons from championship athletes? Aerossurance is pleased to have sponsored the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) conference Human Factors in Engineering – the Next Generation at Cranfield University on 12 May 2015. In his opening address Cranfield University’s Professor Dave King (a former Chief Inspector of Air Accidents with
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Aerossurance Sponsors Human Factors in Aviation Safety Conference Aerossurance is pleased to sponsor the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors’ (CIEHF) Human Factors in Aviation Safety Conference that takes place at the Radison Blu Hotel, East Midlands Airport, 9-10 November 2015. Aerossurance was keen to sponsor this event as it is such an excellent independent professional
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The Contrarian Director Public companies should appoint a “Contrarian Director” to systematically challenge management recommendations, says Australian corporate lawyer Siobhan Sweeney. Sweeney won the 2015 Cambridge-McKinsey Risk Prize at the Centre for Risk Studies at University of Cambridge Judge Business School for her paper on the subject: In the current economic climate marked by volatility and uncertainty, risk oversight
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Performance Based Regulation (PBR) and Detecting the Pathogens At a time when Performance Based Regulation (PBR) is a hot topic in the aviation industry, a series of rail accidents in North America help demonstrate the type of poor performance that PBR must successfully detect. These accidents were what James Reason, Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester described as ‘organisational accidents’ in his
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UK Offshore Helicopter Safety Action Group (OHSAG) April 2015 Minutes The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has just published the minutes of the 28 April 2015 meeting of the Offshore Helicopter Safety Action Group (OHSAG), the second of the year. The OHSAG was formed as a result of the ‘Civil Aviation Authority Safety Review of Offshore Public Transport Helicopter Operations in
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Helideck, Helicopter and Other Specialist Training Facilities Safety training specialists Falck Nutec (now RelyOn Nutec) have installed an ex-Royal Navy AgustaWestland Lynx HAS3 at their Aberdeen training facility on their helideck training mock-up. This aids the training of Helideck Landing Officers (HLOs) and Helideck Assistants (HDAs) on their OPITIO approved training courses. This replaced a rather more
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UK Offshore Helicopter Safety Action Group (OHSAG) Jan 2015 Minutes The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has just published the minutes of the latest, 27 Jan 2015, meeting of the Offshore Helicopter Safety Action Group (OHSAG). The OHSAG was formed as a result of the ‘Civil Aviation Authority Safety Review of Offshore Public Transport Helicopter Operations in Support of
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Helicopter Ditching – EASA Rule Making Task RMT.0120 Update (NPA 2016-01 Helicopter ditching and water impact occupant survivability) The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) gave an update at their 8th Rotorcraft Symposium on the rule making task (RMT.0120) looking at helicopter ditching requirements. The paper is downloadable as part of a large zip file for the whole symposium
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James Reason’s 12 Principles of Error Management James Reason, Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester, set out 12 systemic human factors centric principles of error management in his book Managing Maintenance Error: A Practical Guide (co-written with Alan Hobbs and published in 2003). These principles are valid beyond aviation maintenance and are well worth re-visiting: Human error is both universal
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