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A Data-Driven Approach to Recognizing and Understanding
Human Contributions to Aviation Safety
Data-driven decisions about safety management and design of safety-critical systems are limited by the available data, which influence, and are influenced by, how decision makers characterize problems and identify solutions. In the commercial aviation domain, large volumes of data are collected and analyzed on the failures and errors that result in infrequent incidents and accidents, but in the absence of data on safety-producing behaviors, safety management and system design decisions are based on a small sample of non-representative safety data. Analysis of aviation accident data suggests that human error is implicated in up to 80% of accidents, which has been used to justify future visions for aviation in which the roles of human operators are greatly diminished or eliminated in the interest of creating a safer aviation system. However, failure to fully consider the human contributions to aviation safety represents a significant and largely unrecognized risk when making policy decisions about safety management and system design. Opportunities exist to leverage the vast amount of data that have already been collected, or could be easily obtained, to increase our understanding of human contributions to safety in commercial aviation. This presentation will focus on those opportunities as well as the challenges associated with collecting and analyzing data on operators’ safety-producing behaviors.
Document ID
20205003347
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Jon Holbrook
(Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia, United States)
Date Acquired
June 9, 2020
Subject Category
Air Transportation And Safety
Meeting Information
Meeting: 73rd Annual International Air Safety Summit
Location: Online
Country: US
Start Date: October 20, 2020
End Date: October 20, 2020
Sponsors: Flight Safety Foundation
Funding Number(s)
WBS: 869021.01.07.01.01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
Technical Review
Single Expert
Keywords
Safety
Recognizing
Understanding
Human contributions
Aviation safety
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