Description

Human error has been identified as a dominant risk factor in aviation operations. The errors trapped within daily operations are unlikely to be detected in the absence of effective error reporting.

Error reporting is fundamental to the broad goal of error reduction. At the organisational level, error reporting will only become an accepted and encouraged activity if aviation personnel feel safe in doing so. The following list depicts some good industry practices. It identifies common error reporting principles that can help to ensure that errors do not go unreported: