AVIA3401 Week 1 Questions

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AVIA3401 Aviation Safety and Resource Management Week 1 Page 1 © University of New South Wales - https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/copyright/copyright_ownership AVIA3401 Aviation Safety and Resource Management Reading - Lawson, A., Rodrigues, C. C., Malmquist, S., Braithwaite, G., & Cusick, S. K. (2023). Commercial Aviation Safety. New York, NY: McGraw Hill. Chapter 2. Question 1. Following the Rediske Air accident, t he then chairwoman of the NTSB (Deborah Hersman) stated “we actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don’t kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory change.” Discuss what is meant by this statement. Question 2. What is wrong with the target of entirely eradicating harm by adopting a ‘Target Zero’ philosophy? Question 3. What is meant by the term ‘provide little to no sampling data’?
AVIA3401 Aviation Safety and Resource Management Week 1 Page 2 © University of New South Wales - https://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/copyright/copyright_ownership Reading – Aurino, D. E. (2000). Human factors and aviation safety: what the industry has, what the industry needs. Ergonomics, 43, 952-959. Question 1. What is meant by the term ‘safety in a social construct’? Question 2. According to Aurino, why is it not enough to report safety statistics only? Question 3. What is the problem of only investigating incidents where human error is linked to a bad outcome? Question 4. Why will industries never obtain a zero accident rate?
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