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Commercial Aviation Safety, Seventh Edition

This thoroughly revised guide covers all the principles and practices of commercial aviation safety-from human factors and accident investigation to management strategies and regulatory compliance. Written by a team of experts, Commercial Aviation Safety, Seventh Edition delivers comprehensive risk...

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Online Access: Full Text (via AccessEngineering)
Main Author: Lawrenson, Anthony
Other Authors: Rodrigues, Clarence C., Malmquist, Shem, Greaves, Matthew, Braithwaite, Graham, Cusick, Stephen K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill Education, 2023.
Edition:7th ed.
Subjects:
Aeronautics > United States > Safety measures.
Aeronautics > Safety measures.
Aeronautics > Safety measures
United States
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • About the Authors
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Concepts of Safety
  • 1 An Introduction to Commercial Aviation Safety
  • Introduction
  • 1.1 Air France 447
  • 1.1.1 A Story of an Accident
  • 1.1.2 The AF447 Accident Report
  • 1.1.3 Other Stories of AF447
  • 1.1.4 A Deeper Understanding
  • 1.2 Safety Evolution
  • 1.2.1 Four Eras of Commercial Aviation Safety
  • 1.3 The Right Stuff
  • 1.3.1 Commercial Aviation Today
  • 1.3.2 Safety Statistics
  • 1.4 Why It Goes So Right
  • 1.4.1 Suggestions as to Why
  • 1.4.2 Fly by Rules
  • 1.4.3 Political Currency
  • 1.4.4 Constant Innovation
  • 1.4.5 Fear of Flying
  • 1.5 The Impact of COVID-19
  • 1.5.1 The Face Value
  • 1.5.2 The Cash Value
  • 1.5.3 The Impact on Technical Safety
  • 1.5.4 The Impact on Human Safety
  • 1.5.5 The Impact on Organizational and System Safety
  • Key Terms
  • Topics for Discussion
  • References
  • 2 What is Safety?
  • Introduction
  • 2.1 Safety Philosophy
  • 2.1.1 A Tale of Two Accidents
  • 2.1.2 Numbers and Distance
  • 2.1.3 Different Rules for Different Flights
  • 2.2 Safety Thinking
  • 2.2.1 Why Is Safety Important?
  • 2.2.2 What Is Safety?
  • 2.2.3 What Is Risk?
  • 2.2.4 Target Zero
  • 2.3 Measuring Safety
  • 2.3.1 Regulatory Metrics
  • 2.3.2 Measuring Ultrasafe Systems
  • 2.3.3 Reactive, Proactive, and Predictive Safety
  • 2.3.4 Safety Reporting Initiatives
  • 2.3.5 Safety Monitoring Initiatives
  • 2.4 Limits of Safety
  • 2.4.1 Are We Safe Enough Yet?
  • 2.4.2 Changing Standards
  • 2.4.3 Acceptable Level of Safety
  • 2.4.4 Tolerable, Acceptable, and ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable)
  • 2.5 Commercial Safety
  • 2.5.1 Safety or Success?
  • 2.5.2 Commercial Pressure
  • 2.5.3 Safety and Success
  • 2.5.4 Marketing Safety
  • 2.5.5 The Cost of Accidents
  • Key Terms
  • Topics for Discussion
  • References
  • 3 Why Do Accidents Happen?
  • Introduction
  • 3.1 What Is an Accident?
  • 3.1.1 Defining Accidents
  • 3.1.2 The Perception of Accidents
  • 3.1.3 Framing the Accident
  • 3.1.4 The Mount Erebus Disaster
  • 3.2 Accident Causation
  • 3.2.1 Designing Our Own Accident
  • 3.2.2 Accidents and Human Behavior
  • 3.2.3 Defining Cause
  • 3.2.4 Causal Theory
  • 3.2.5 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
  • 3.3 Developing Perspectives
  • 3.3.1 Evolving Accident Theories
  • 3.3.2 New Accidents
  • 3.3.3 New Investigations
  • 3.3.4 Emerging Patterns
  • 3.4 Linear Causation Models
  • 3.4.1 Accident Chains and Dominoes
  • 3.4.2 The Accident Triangle
  • 3.4.3 Root Cause Analysis
  • 3.4.4 Reason's Swiss Cheese Model
  • 3.4.5 The Human Factors Analysis Classification System (HFACS)
  • 3.4.6 Bowtie
  • 3.5 Complex Causation Models
  • 3.5.1 Normal Accident Theory
  • 3.5.2 High Reliability Theory (HRT)
  • 3.5.3 Practical Drift
  • 3.5.4 Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM)
  • 3.5.5 Deliberate Myths and Black Swans
  • 3.6 Significant Commercial Aviation Accidents

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