Maintenance Workload

When people discuss workload in aircraft maintenance, they can be viewing the subject from two different perspectives:

• workload required, expected, planned for, and experienced by the maintenance organisation, or
• workload demanded of, and experienced by, individual maintenance employees.

Both organisational and human factors impact each other, and it is the responsibility of the maintenance organisation to ensure that manpower available is more than adequate to meet all necessary tasks.

Aircraft Maintenance

The role of aircraft maintenance, simply put, is to ensure that aircraft presented “on the line” for flight operations comply with: