Resilient Strategies in Commercial AviationWhen we fly and nothing scary happens, is the system’s design affording this success? Not always — sometimes humans are the cause of success. This resilient performance is often overlooked. To capture this, we explore two types of strategies: countermeasures and modifications. First, countermeasures are behaviors triggered by variables anticipated to be challenging or problematic (pressures). To capture this, we look at examples of how a problem was avoided. For example, a country road may have a hairpin turn where accidents occur. With this pressure identified, we look at successful drivers for insights. Modifications are changes that are created to fill a gap between work-as-imagined and work-as-done. This strategy is from the design of systems. In aviation, work-as-imagined is often explicit, so it can be compared to behaviors using data. These two resilient potentials aim to better understand how systems function, as well as how people contribute to unrecognized successes.
Document ID
20230006126
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Michael Stewart (Datum Aero Mountain View, California, United States)
Bryan Matthews (KBR (United States) Houston, Texas, United States)
Date Acquired
April 20, 2023
Publication Date
May 30, 2023
Subject Category
Air Transportation and Safety
Meeting Information
Meeting: 22nd International Symposium on Aviation Psychology