• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.467-484
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• 2017

Objective: The purpose of this paper is to review, with the main focus on aviation safety technology and management program, how human factors are currently taken into consideration within transportation sectors, especially aviation, and to further share related information. Background: Human factors account for the majority of aviation accidents/incidents. Thus, the aviation sector has been comparatively quick in developing and applying technologies and management programs that deal with human factors. This paper reviews the latest safety technologies and management programs regarding human factors and aims to identify the trend. Method: This paper, based on literature research and practical experience, examines the latest international standards on technologies and management programs, those that deal with human factors and are adopted by international and domestic aviation organization. The main focus of discussion is how human factors are reflected during the system design and operation process. Results: The current most important issue in designing is the consideration of human factors in Cockpit, Automation, and Safety system technology design. From an operational point of view, the issues at hand are screening and training aviation workers to promote aviation safety, providing education on human factors and CRM/TEM, and running a safety management program to implement SMS. They were discussed based on the operational experience within the aviation sector. Conclusion: Major examples of a human factors approach to promote aviation safety are safety programs and various safety and monitoring technologies applied to aviation personnel for error management. These programs must be managed in an integrated manner that takes both the system designing and operational point of view into account. Application: It is thought that the human factors approach for promoting aviation safety reviewed in this paper can be extended and applied to safety management programs in other transportation sectors such as the railroad, maritime, road traffic etc.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.72-81
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• 2024

Korean aviation authority required air service providers to submit public disclosure of aviation safety investment to encourage proactive and voluntary safety investments. In 2023, two airport operators and seventeen airlines disclosed their safety investment results and plans for the first time. This study aims to examine and analyze the current status of the disclosure system, identify insights for its development, and set directions for the future. Safety investments by airport operators decreased by 14.3% in 2022 compared to 2021 due to decreased aviation demand. Airline increased their safety investment by 46% to 4 trillion won, investing heavily in MRO and aircraft replacement, leading to a decrease in the average fleet age by 0.8 years. FSCs have shown a significantly higher level of safety investment compared to LCCs. However, LCCs show higher safety investment relative to revenue. It is necessary to consider the characteristics of each operator as well as the scale when comparing safety investments. A roadmap is suggested based on the importance of disclosure items for the strategic approach and improvement measures for the aviation safety investment disclosure system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.124-129
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• 2014

The organization's safety culture is strongly tied to the success of its safety learning programme. All personnel must understand the concept and necessity of Safety Management System. In order to settle the culture which they are willing to share the responsibility of safety, it is essential for service provider as the airline company to develop the technique and knowledge which intenses the organization's safety and to perform safety learning programme to be applied. This study has looked into the preceding studies about the learning culture and surveyed how the airmen have acquired the safety lessons learned thru their safety promotion within aviation maintenance organization. Accordingly, it intends to contribute safety promotion by suggestion of the effective and positive learning culture thru the establishment of strategy and the safety learning programme suitable to the organization.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.54-62
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• 2022

ICAO has recommended data-based aviation safety management and decision-making systems through Annex 19(Safety Management) and Doc 9859(Safety Management Manual), stressing that safety can be greatly improved by sharing aviation safety information throughout the industry. Accordingly, advanced aviation countries have built infrastructure to collect and analyze various aviation safety data in an integrated manner, and also tried to spread identified major safety issues across the industry. On the other hand, in Korea, each stakeholder collects, manages and analyzes safety data individually, so there is a limit to use them in integrative manner. In addition, the scope of using and sharing aviation safety information such as analysis result is also focused on safety management at the national government level, which is insufficient to be shared throughout the industry. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to present a plan to share and utilize the domestic aviation safety information. To do this, we compare the current situation between FAA and domestic industry and suggest the improvement plans.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.88-93
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• 2015

Among other various aspects of safety culture, this research has considered safety culture from the view of aviation. A tool to examine aviation safety culture has been developed on the basis of Global Aviation Safety Network's safety culture survey. Using this tool, the degree of perception of Korean national carriers' pilots in safety culture has been examined three times for the period from 2002 to 2015. Compared to an initial result of the survey in 2002, results in 2008 and 2015 demonstrate that safety culture among pilots has rapidly changed from negative and bureaucratic to positive. Hence, it is expected that positive index of safety culture will increase 28% (total approximate 90%) in 2020.

• Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.111-123
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• 2016

Objective: The objective of this research is to study preceding literature on safety culture surveying tools and indicators used in aviation organizations to help the further understanding of aviation safety culture by presenting Korea-Safety Culture Survey Indicator (K-SCSI) as a relevant case. Background: The aviation field puts a great deal of effort in preventive safety management through the application of Safety Management System (SMS), which was co-developed by international aviation organizations such as ICAO and FAA. To successfully operate safety management system, safety culture factors such as the organization member's level of consciousness, attitude and faith regarding safety must be put together. However, the aviation field currently lacks programs to promote safety culture and the exact understanding of some safety culture concepts. Method: This research inquired into the definition of safety culture in the aviation field and the surveying tools used to measure it. It then described the development and application process of the Korea-Safety Culture Survey Indicator (K-SCSI) mainly focusing on case studies. Results: In this research are presented safety culture promoting programs that can be applied to subordinate indicators of K-SCSI such as organization commitment, management involvement, rationality of reward system, employee empowerment and reporting system. Conclusion: For a mature safety culture to settle successfully, it is essential that safety culture survey indicators are developed and applied in a way that fits the organization's features. Also, behavior measuring indicators are required to develop a more objective indicator and thus must be standardized. Application: Cases that deal with the development and application of safety culture measuring tools within the aviation field can be studied and applied in other domains to spread safety culture.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.105-116
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• 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to present the preemptive prevention and improvement measures for aviation safety management by examining the current status of the aviation industry and the operation system of the aviation safety management system and identifying the shortcomings of the currently operating aviation safety management system. Method: A plan to improve aviation safety management was proposed through an analysis of recent incidents and accidents, current status of domestic laws, and analysis of overseas operating institutions and safety management systems. Result: Through the recent aircraft safety-related incidents, deficiencies of currently operating aviation safety management, and response cases of advanced countries in overseas aviation, improvement points in terms of management systems and laws and preventive aviation safety management plans were derived. Conclusion: The method for improving aviation safety management was presented based on the technique using data, and it should be materialized through additional related research.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.71-77
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• 2020

The checklist currently used for aviation safety inspection performed by ASIs(Aviation Safety Inspectors) consists of inspection groups and multiple items, it does not have safety attribute and structured hierarchy system which required to efficiently process aviation safety analysis. On this study, categorized the domestic and foreign ASI checklist by safety attribute from ICAO recommended and presented composition of checklist for safety assurance by comparative analysis composition of domestic and foreign ASI checklist.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.456-465
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• 2021

For predictive aviation safety management, the establishment of safety performance indicators to measure and manage the safety performance of service providers must be preceded. In particular, leading indicators are significant in that they play an important role in identifying and managing the causes of accident/incident in advance. However, the current safety performance indicators of the domestic aviation industry have limitations in that they focus on lagging indicators based on events that have already occurred. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to construct Korean leading indicators for preventive safety management. In addition, we verify the validity and importance of the indicators based on review of the experts and AHP analysis. This study is meaningful in that it can support the proactive safety management of the domestic aviation industry through the development of leading safety indicators, which have been relatively lacking in research.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.14-23
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• 2022

This paper analyzes quality management of aviation safety services in Korea and proposes practical implications for improvement. We look into how quality management is conducted in the Korean aviation industry and confirm aviation authority's efforts for a quality management system. We also compare and analyze international standard ISO 9001 and aviation safety oversight system quality management cases of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with a Korean case. Results find the difference in defining the scope of ISO 9001 management between ICAO/FAA and the Korean authority which causes unnecessary misunderstanding in oversight perception. The Korean aviation authority strives to provide a high level of safety oversight services by educating aviation safety inspectors as well as establishing a quality management system. We believe that our proposals can help Korean aviation safety oversight system secure objective credibility and seek a safe growth and development of the aviation industry.