For students and practitioners of aviation maintenance, Patankar (aviation science, Saint Louis U.) and Taylor (engineering, Santa Clara U., California) integrate the concept of risk management into t
Considering the global awareness of human performance issues affecting maintenance personnel, there is enough evidence in the US ASRS reports to establish that systemic problems such as impractical ma
Patankar (aviation science, St. Louis U.) and Taylor (a consultant in California) offer a how-to companion to their work Risk Management and Error Reduction in Aviation Maintenance (2004). Writing for
Although several U.S. and European airlines have started providing human factors training to their maintenance personnel, the academic community (some 300 academic programs in the United States and se
Patankar (aviation science, Saint Louis University) looks at moral and ethical attitudes underlying the types of decisions that perpetuate many of the latent failures in safety-critical systems. He pr
A team of specialists in safety, two from St. Louis University and two from business, introduce the safety culture pyramid, a contextual framework that goes beyond the conventional safety climate metr
