Resilience Engineering as a Perspective in Understanding Accident Causation by Shawn Pruchnicki

Title: The Geometry of Near Mid Air Collisions
Presenter: Shawn Pruchnicki of The Ohio State University
Length: 14 minutes
Format: Downloadable video in SD, HD & Mobile SD
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If we are to move beyond the primitive simple human error explanations of accident causation, understanding a system’s resilience with our investigative effort might help us better understand how complex systems fail. This presentation discusses a mechanism to examine failed complex socio-technical systems when viewed through a resilience engineering perspective and how adaptation is eventually unable to cope with system pressures thus revealing mechanisms of failure from which we hope to prevent the next accident.

Shawn is a faculty member at Ohio State where he teaches aviation safety, human factors, and accident investigation. Prior, he flew as a Captain with Delta Connection in addition to being extensively involved with ALPA and held positions at all levels within the safety structure.

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This presentation was given at the CIEHF event ‘Human Factors in Aviation Safety‘ on 10th November 2015 at the Radisson Blu hotel, East Midlands Airport.