The Federal Aviation Administration Tuesday announced the debut of an online training program on the importance of "human factors." The Web Course consists of 10 self-guided lessons about the role ...

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 ...

The transportation industry has a human factors problem. Consider this: From 2005 to 2009, the volume of fatal crashes involving large trucks or buses dropped by a third. At the time, it felt like ...

(January 2012) Last month I reported the exciting news that the training required by the FAA SFAR issued in 2006 succeeded in turning the MU-2, an airplane that had been at the bottom of the accident ...

The article opens with a personal account of the author's grueling schedule as an early-career aircraft mechanic, illustrating how extreme fatigue and long hours were once common, underscoring the ...

Dublin, Aug. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Human Factors and Usability Engineering in the Development of Drug Delivery Products Training Course (ONLINE EVENT: September 16-17, 2025)" has been ...

In Part 2, we discussed the risks of wire strikes and visual illusions. An in-depth knowledge of snow behavior and weather trends can help markedly in predicting the composition of snow covering a ...