30th EAAP Conference
Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors - Working towards zero Accidents. With a special Session on Aviation Economics.

The 30th EAAP Conference "Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors - working towards zero Accidents. With a special Session on Aviation Economics" will take place from 24-28 September 2012 at Hotel Tanka Village in Villasimius (Sardinia/Italy).

Welcome by the EAAP President!

Human Factors and Safety are often seen as being closely related. Many accident investigations report that Human Factors played a major role in the evolution of events that led to a bad outcome, i.e. an accident. So, more Human Factors research would help to make our aviation world safer. But are you sure that the existing knowledge is already consistently applied? I am not.

Accident investigations regularly reveal system characteristics that confuse pilots, controllers and mechanics. Did we miss all of those , or weren’t they looked for yet? Human Factors knowledge is already around in many brains but its application by adequate Human Factors integration is still an organizational matter which must be lagging behind? Is a safety case enough or do we have to dig deeper into the caverns of system development processes and validation?

Traffic growth forces all involved to enhance safety and policy makers introduced the idea of ‘zero accident’ operations. Achievable or not, it can help us all to break the barriers that withhold safety now. One of them is economics, not only for profit but also for investing in application of Human factors by all for the benefit of all.

So, next year’s conference theme is striving for zero accidents and in order to attack the challenge together as psychologists, engineers, managers, pilots, controllers, mechanics and accountants we will organize a special session on aviation economics to learn how to make it real(istic).

See you in Sardinia!

Prof. Peter Jorna
EAAP President

Target Audience

Our target audience are psychologists and human factors practitioners working or interested in the aviation branch. You may be working in one or more of the domains of safety management, training, selection, clinical practice, accident investigation, workplace design, etc. and/or as a pilot, cabin crew, air traffic controller, maintenance crew, researcher, regulator, designer, manager, etc. Or you are just interested in the field of aviation psychology and aviation human factors.

Of course also students interested or studying in the field of aviation pychology and human factors are most welcome.