Articles for category Safety
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May
15
2014
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Personal Protective Equipment (Part Two)
By Dr. Dudley Crosson
This is the concluding part of our article on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) / Aviation Life Support Equipment (ALSE). Last month we looked at the helmet. Now I would like to consider all other components of what a flight crew should wear.
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Safety
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May
09
2014
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PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (Part One)
By Dr. Dudley Crosson
It doesn’t matter what you call it – Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) or Aviation Life Support Equipment (ALSE) – it is all the same. It is the equipment that the flight crew should be using to protect them from conditions that may occur during an accident. It is common practice to utilize ALSE in the public safety and HEMS communities, but it is obvious that not all do so.
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Safety
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Mar
28
2014
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Perceptions of Safety
By Scott Skola
Safety, safety, safety … with the full court press on safety these days, you would think that the rotorcraft industry would be at that much-revered “zero incidents and accidents” goal by now. Unfortunately, we’re not.
When you get down to it, what is safety? Is it just an analytical state of mind, with a bunch of numbers and ratios proving its success? Or does it also have a philosophical side, where perception and beliefs play a part in safety success? The short answer—it’s both. So, if a company wants no incidents and accidents—and every employee goes to work with the intention of not causing an incident or accident—why do we continue to come up short?
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Training
Safety
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Mar
20
2014
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My Two Cents Worth (Rotorcraft Pro February 2014 Issue) by Randy Mains
What does it mean to you to be a professional? With that thought in mind, do you possess the attributes of a professional? What do you think are essential qualities of a true professional? Conversely, what qualities would you consider to be found in someone who is not a professional? Considering what it takes to be professional – and unprofessional – will make you aware of what we all strive to be: a true professional in our chosen occupation.
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Training
Safety
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Feb
13
2014
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My Two Cents Worth - Randy Mains
Wouldn’t it be great if there were a big fat red warning light on the instrument panel that would illuminate whenever we were putting our passengers and ourselves in harm’s way? Well there is, but it’s not on the instrument panel – it’s in your head.
Research has shown that nearly 80% of all aircraft accidents in history have had an element of human error, which means it isn’t stick-and-rudder skills that are killing people – bad pilot decision-making is killing people.
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Training
Safety
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Jan
30
2014
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Safety’s Hazard
By Scott Skola
Safety and helicopter maintenance have had a long – and interesting – relationship. During the past two decades, safety has played an ever-increasing role and is now one of the primary influences on each and every task mechanics perform.
But can too much initiative in the name of safety have a more negative than positive effect in a maintenance environment? Can safety actually become a hazard?
"What you talk’n bout, Willis?”
No, this is not about removing basic safety procedures, nor regressing to the old days of bathing in MEK, or working 48 hours straight to change an S-76 transmission. This topic focuses on the current shift to apply abstract safety initiatives directly into aircraft maintenance procedures.
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Safety
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Jan
23
2014
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TAKE 5! A new idea
By Ian Robinson
CRM, ADM, BLA, BLA, BLA: What do they really mean? Lets get specific, look at ourselves, and discover if we are accident-prone.
Safety Introspection
We all work in inherently dangerous environments. Will you take a five-minute journey into self-discovery? If 65-80% of all aviation accidents are related to human error, let’s attack the statistics - We can learn from others.
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Safety
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Jan
16
2014
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My 2 Cents (December 2013)
Randy Mains
Six years after his historic flight, Orville Wright lost a friend in an aircraft accident. He lamented, “What is needed is better judgment, rather than better skill.”
It’s been proven, whether flying single pilot or multi-crew, that faulty decision-making has caused far more aviation accidents than poor flying ability.
An element of crew resource management (CRM) examines nine hazardous attitudes and behaviors that can impede good judgement and decision-making. By identifying these behaviors and applying the anecdote to counteract them, you can break a vital link in the error chain and avoid having an incident or accident.
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Safety
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Jan
09
2014
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In its quest to bring the global helicopter accident rate to zero, the International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) has analyzed more than 1,000 U.S. civil helicopter accidents and their causes. Having done so, the IHST’s investigators have come to two clear conclusions: (1) Helicopter accidents are ultimately caused by incorrect human decisions, and (2) the evidence shows that reducing the accident rate to zero is actually possible.
“After going through the NTSB investigations in detail, one thing has become obvious: No one has invented a new way to crash a helicopter,” says Matt Zuccaro, IHST co-chair and president of Helicopter Association International. “The reasons helicopters crashed ten years ago remain the same today, and all of their causes can be traced back to the people who flew, serviced, or managed the helicopters.”
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Safety
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Dec
05
2013
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It appears the Australians put a higher value on patient safety than our FAA, NTSB and even Congress. That’s a pretty strong statement, isn’t it? Let me tell you how I arrived at that conclusion.
When my article “The Power of CRM” appeared in the August 2013 issue of Rotorcraft Pro my wife, Kaye, and I were in Australia, flown there by the Aeromedical Society of Australasia so that I could deliver two keynote speeches at their 25th scientific meeting of HEMS operators.
My first keynote address was entitled “US Aeromedical Accidents – What can Australasian HEMS learn from our Mistakes?” On the second day I delivered a keynote address entitled “CRM in Aeromedical Operations - Why CRM/AMRM (Air Medical Resource Management) is Absolutely Vital to HEMS Safety.”
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