Assessing Safety Culture within a Flight Training Organization

Flight Simulator Training: Assessing the Potential

Mental workload is an important concept and has been proven to be a precursor to situation awareness and operative performance. This thesis describes methods to measure mental workload through self-ratings and psychophysiological measurements. Similarities and differences in psychophysiological reactions and rated mental workload between simulated and real flights are described. The consequence...

Assessing safety culture: guidelines and recommendations.

Influence of Training on Patient Safety Culture: a Nurse Attitude Improvement Perspective

Background and Objectives: Medical Errors and adverse events have recently turned into one of the predominant concerns of health-policy makers and health services providers. Promoting safety culture is fundamental to sustainable safety improvement in healthcare settings. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of training on nurses’ attitudes towards safety culture.   Methods: A ...

Flight Energy Management Training: Promoting Safety and Efficiency

Poor aircraft energy management can lead to unsafe and inefficient operations. Despite their impact on safety and economy, energy management skills are not adequately taught or evaluated in civilian pilot training. This paper 1) addresses the need for better energy management training, 2) provides a conceptual and pedagogical framework for later curriculum development, and 3) suggests key attri...

Patient safety culture: partitioning the variance by organization level

Aim: To document 1) that patient safety culture scores vary not only by individual responder, but also, and to a large degree, by ward and department, and 2) that more of the variation is across wards than across departments. Setting: 500-bed Norwegian university hospital September-December 2006. Methods: Data collected from 1400 staff by (the Norwegian version of) the generic version of the Sa...