Human Error Training Term Paper for Safety 401

Human Error Training Term Paper for Safety 401

Abstract

It is an industry-accepted fact that the most prevalent factor in aviation mishaps is the human factor. The most interesting point of this statement is that human factor has, in the history of aviation, always been present, and within the last 50 years, accounted for over 80 percent of why a mishap occurred. The subject has been so widely studied with programs and processes to prevent human factor mishaps, that within the United states Department of Defense alone, each service has their own staff of experts and resources allocated to study and develop the Holy Grail of mishap prevention. So why, with all these civil and military resources, can we not improve upon the already statistically low rate of human error causal factor in mishaps? It is the contention of this paper that while the primary reasons human factor mishaps occur cannot be eliminated, they can be controlled with a user level