While attending a course on avalanche safety, students learned how to analyze a snowpack. They subsequently prepared a landing site for an EMS helicopter. This required assessing the hazards to a ...

More than 15 years ago, the FAA chartered a human factors team to look into the causes of a spate of accidents that involved crews trying to function within highly automated cockpits that had been ...

Safety Culture may be one of the hottest, yet least understood, topics in aviation safety. What does it mean? Often when we talk about aviation safety, we’re talking about physical safety. We’re ...

Human factors focuses on the role of humans in complex systems, the design of equipment and facilities for human use, and the development of environments for comfort and safety. Human factors research ...

NORFOLK, Va. - Meet the new Aviation Human Factors Engineer, Dr. Kellie Kennedy! She recently joined Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic (CNAL) N45 Safety Department. Kennedy spent the last decade at ...

Human factors (also referred to as human factors psychology and human factors engineering) is an applied field of study that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to ...