For more than two decades, experts have been pleading for the human factors lessons learned from aviation safety to be applied to the growing toll of iatrogenic injuries in medicine. Now a new set of ...

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 ...

A National Research Council panel is faulting NASA for not systematically taking astronaut health and human factors into account in the early stages of its Exploration Technology Development Program ...

A recent study published in Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors suggests that a flight instructor’s personality and ...

With ICAO’s Year of Security Culture coming to an end, aviation security practitioners are turning their attention towards the learning, legacy, and evolution of the Security Culture concept. For ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — How do you ensure Soldiers of different heights and body types can both reach all the needed instruments in a cockpit to safely fly a helicopter? That’s where human factors ...

Flight instructors need an instructional level of knowledge beyond rote memorization, especially in aeromedical, human factors, and security, along with the adaptability to create tailored, realistic ...