Smelly Cheese, Ripe Fruit, and Dozens of Other Acronyms: Is there more to Maintenance Human Factors?

摘要

For over two decades concepts and models like Reason’s Swiss Cheese, Johnson’s PEAR, and DuPont’s Dirty Dozen have served as useful means to describe and address human factors. These models, mnemonics, and other acronyms have been helpful for learning and applying human factors concepts. Is there more to human factors? Will the new breed of acronyms, pneumonics, and catchy phrases replace the old ones? Will concepts like Safety Management Systems (SMS), Voluntary Incident Reporting Systems (VIRP), and Maintenance Line Operations Safety Audits (M-LOSA) be able to effect change that was not previously possible? An examination of the past and the future reveals high value in both.