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A Comparative Study on the Perception of Safety Culture of Airline Flight Crew in Korea (국내 항공사 운항승무원 안전문화 인식도 비교 연구)

  • Hyeon Deok Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.103-108
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    • 2024
  • Despite the development of the aviation industry, aircraft accidents caused by human errors by flight crews continue to occur. In order to reduce such human error accidents, it is important to strengthen flight-related regulations and establish a safety culture in which pilots themselves seek to ensure flight safety, rather than requiring flight crew members to follow them. In this study, the sub-concept of safety culture was classified into three latent variables (safety management, safety atmosphere, and process culture) and eight measured variables to investigate the safety culture awareness of domestic flight crew. The survey results were analyzed by type of airline and flight crew. The purpose of this study is to present a plan to improve the performance of revitalizing the safety culture of domestic flight crew through an empirical comparative analysis according to the number of flight hours and years of service at the airline.

Effectiveness of Crew Resource Management Training Program for Operators in the APR-1400 Main Control Room Simulator (국내 원자력발전소 첨단 주제어실의 Crew Resource Management 교육훈련 효과 분석)

  • Kim, Sa-Kil;Byun, Seong-Nam;Lee, Dhong-Hoon;Jeong, Choong-Heui
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.104-115
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    • 2009
  • The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Crew Resource Management (CRM) training program for operators in the Main Control Room (MCR) simulator of APR-1400 Nuclear Power Plant. The experiments were conducted for two different crews of operators performing six different emergency operating scenarios during four-week period. Each crew consisted of the five operators: senior reactor operator, safety technical advisor, reactor operator, turbine operator, and electric operator. All crews (Crew A and B) participated in the training program for the technical knowledge and skills which were required to operate the simulator of the MCR during the first week. To verify the effectiveness of the CRM training program; however, only Crew A was selected to attend the CRM training after the technical knowledge and skills training. The results of the experiments showed that the CRM training program improved the individual attitudes of Crew A significantly. Team skills of Crew A were found to be significantly better than those of Crew B. The CRM training did not have positive effects on enhancing the individual performance of Crew A; however, as compared to that of Crew B. Implication of these findings was discussed further in detail.

A study of the threats towards the flight crew (민간항공사의 운항승무원에 영향을 주는 위협관리에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Jin-Kook;Kim, Chil-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.54-59
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    • 2010
  • The flight deck crew must manage complexity during daily flight operations. The Airline may obtain data regarding threats and errors through LOSA(Line Operations Safety Audits) on normal flights as predictive safety tool in Safety Management System of the Airline to actively improve the systems such as SOP(Standard Operation Procedure), training, evaluation and the TEM(Threat and Error Management) for the flight deck crew. The flight deck crew make errors when they fail managing threats. The crew mismanage around ten percent of threats and commit errors. The major mismanaged threats are aircraft malfunction, ATC(Air Traffic Communication), and wether threats. The effective countermeasures of TEM for manageing threats are leadership, workload management, monitor & cross check, Vigilance, communication environment and cooperation of the crew. It is important that organizations must monitor for the hazards of threats and improve system for the safer TEM environments.

Regulatory Aspects of Passenger and Crew Safety: Crash Survivability and the Emergency Brace Position

  • Davies, Jan M.
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.199-224
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    • 2018
  • Aviation's safety record continues to improve yearly, especially with respect to passenger and crew injuries and deaths. However, although the number of accidents has decreased over the decades, there are still many events, such as landings short of the runway and runway excursions, both of which pose threats to passenger and crew safety. Surviving any kind of aviation accident depends on the physiological threat and stress of the impact(s), the extent to which the physical structure surrounding the passengers and crew remains intact, and the ability of the passengers and crew to be able to escape the wreckage. The one action that both passengers and crew can carry out to help decrease the likelihood of crash-related injury or death is to assume an emergency brace position. Doing so has been demonstrated over several decades to improve survivability. While cabin crew are taught (and then might have to teach passengers in an emergency about the emergency brace position), passengers in many parts of the world never learn about the brace position unless they are involved in an emergency in which there is time to prepare for the landing. This lack of provision of information is related to the fact that most airlines do not provide information in the preflight safety briefing and some do not even provide the information in the passenger safety cards. Many countries do not require their airlines to do so, a fact, which in turn, is related to the lack of mention of the brace position in ICAO's Annex 6. Until standards and recommended practices are changed at the highest world level, passengers will continue to be deprived of this vital, life-saving information that they can use, potentially to help save their own lives.

A Study on the Improvement of Safety Perception and Safety Action of Cabin Crews: Focusing on the Airlines Safety Climate (객실승무원의 안전지각과 안전행동 향상을 위한 연구: 항공사 안전 분위기를 중심으로)

  • Park, Hee Jung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.76-87
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    • 2019
  • This study was conducted to check the cabin crew's safety perception in relation to the airline's safety climate and cabin crew's safety action and to verify that the safety perception's mediation effects. The results of the study confirmed that all three factors of the safety climate have a significant impact on safety perception, and among them, safety practice is the most significant. Accordingly, Airlines need to establish a community that enables real-time information exchange for air accidents so that the cabin crew can present real-time examples of safety-related accidents. In addition, it will be necessary to work with external safety agencies to form an active attitude for the establishment of safety procedures in order to prevent recurrence of safety problems while considering the causes of such incidents internally in the event of an airline safety accident. In addition, it was confirmed that safety training was the most significant factor to safety action, among which all three elements of the safety climate had a significant effect on safety action. Therefore, airlines need to expand practical training on aircraft to full-scale safety training to build an immediate resolution for cabin crews in the event of an air accident. In addition, safety training should be established to encourage collaboration among aviation safety-related personnel to participate in safety training together to address aviation safety from a diverse point of view. Safety perception was has a significant effect on safe action. Therefore, airlines should reinforce the airline's safety management system by checking the status of the cabin crew's safety perception extending the level of punishment to the scope of retirement or disqualification to establish a firm awareness of safety. Finally, the safety perception has demonstrated partial mediation effects in relation to the safety climate and safety action. Therefore, the airline needs to improve the duties of the cabin crew that interferes with cabin safety duties. In addition, airlines should utilize advertisements emphasizing that safety is first.

A Research on the Effect of a Cabin Crews' Low Level of Work Situational Awareness to Their Safety Behavior - Including the Mediation Effect Analysis on Cabin Crew's Forward Planning - (객실승무원의 업무 상황인식 저하가 안전행동에 미치는 영향 연구 - 객실승무원의 계획성 매개변수 효과를 포함하여 -)

  • Park, In-Sub;Kim, Kee-Woong;Park, Sung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.76-85
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    • 2022
  • Work situational awareness test (WSAT) has been utilized to estimate the fatigue risk of workers who worked with time pressure or latent accident risks at their work environment. Thus researchers decided to use WSAT to estimate fatigue risk of cabin crews of an airline in Korea and to analyze empirically how such risk might have an effect on cabin crew's safety behavior. This was because there had not been enough research on accessing cabin crews' fatigue and analyzing its risk for the flight safety. In addition, the mediation effect of cabin crew's planning was also analyzed through Sobel-test by researchers among external factors such as lack of concentration, attention deficit, distraction and safety behavior. According to empirical analysis, it was found attention deficit and distraction of cabin crews due to fatigue during the flight had a significant negative effect on their planning. Planning was also proven to have mediation effect to cabin crew's safety behavior.

The Operational Time pressure and TEM (운항시간 압력 및 Threat과 Error 관리)

  • Choe, Jin-Guk;An, Gyeong-Su;Jeong, Won-Gyeong;Kim, Chil-Yeong
    • 한국항공운항학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.61-65
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    • 2006
  • The flight deck crew are under the operational time pressure in the cockpit. The crew tend to make errors when they face the threats of operational time pressure because they are in a rush. The flight deck crew can reduce threats and errors which existing within the airlines by using threat and error management when the crew know these threats and errors. The airlines can implement meaningful safety management system by analyzing into the useful information for to identify the hazard and manage the risk to reduce these threats and errors since aircrafts accidents can be fatal.With the threats and errors that were found regard to operational time pressures, company may implements safety change process to improve the safety systematically and the crew can manage the threats and errors more effectively.

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An Analysis of Consciousness of Crew on Shipboard Injury and Illness (선원재해에 관한 선원의 의식현황 분석)

  • 장석기;양원재;박계각;이창희;남정길;천대일
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2002.03a
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    • pp.121-130
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    • 2002
  • Though, the disasters of shipboard crew have many types and aspects, most of them are caused by human elements, and the management and the regulations for the crew safety are other elements for the crew disaster. Accordingly, the analysis of the consciousness and understandings on crew's safety management system is one of the important parts to reduce the accident. Therefore, this study made up the questionnaire and assorted the respond of shipping companies, ship's officers and engineers including captains to our questionaries, and analyzed the results to pick out and find their consciousness on the crew disaster. And also, this study is to make proposals to prevent and reduce the accident.

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Implementation of the Web-Based K-LOSA Program for the Safety Observation in Normal Operation (정상운항에서 안전 관찰을 위한 웹 기반 K-LOSA 프로그램 구현)

  • Choi, Youn-Chul;Hong, Seung-Beom
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.319-324
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    • 2014
  • Line operation safety audit (LOSA) is the proactive data collection system to capture the accident and serious incident caused by flight crew and is the safety management program for collecting threat error management (TEM) and crew resource management (CRM) during normal operations. The typically LOSA is written by hand, manages and archives the LOSA Observation Worksheet. But, this method is not easy to archive and ensure confidentiality of the LOSA worksheets. As we implemented the K-LOSA of the web-document type instead of the existing LOSA archive method and change the TEM category code. we yields to archive the efficient data management and confidentiality. In this paper, we introduce the LOSA and to configure the K-LOSA program.

A Study on the Daily Squadron Crew Scheduling (단위비행체계의 승무원 일일 비행스케줄링에 관한 연구)

  • Lee Yu-In
    • Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.28-43
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    • 1989
  • Squadron crew scheduling problems can be defined as the assignment of crews to flights consistent with safety regulations and squadron policy. In this paper, the daily crew scheduling problems are formulated as zero-one interger programs known as generalized assignment problems. The objective function is to maximize the weighted mission interval to improve the crew performance. Flight schedules using the 0-1 integer model are compared with manual schedules. The results of the study show that the average crew performance is improved.

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