While attending a course on avalanche safety, students learned how to analyze a snowpack. They subsequently prepared a landing site for an EMS helicopter. This required assessing the hazards to a ...

The transportation industry has a human factors problem. Consider this: From 2005 to 2009, the volume of fatal crashes involving large trucks or buses dropped by a third. At the time, it felt like ...

Human factors is an applied field of study at the crossroads of psychology, engineering, and computing that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to inform ...

As unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) continue to rapidly evolve to meet the needs of our Army, so has their evolution into our aviation formations. Our combat aviation brigades saw exponential growth ...

To help you meet your compliance with UAE GCAA CAR M New Human Factor & SMS Requirements for CAMO Staff, Sofema Online has elaborated a relevant training SOFIA ...

U.S. and EU regulators require human factors and usability testing to bring a medical device to market. Virginia Lang, PhD, president and chief scientist at HirLan Inc., an engineering consultancy ...

In Part 2, we discussed the risks of wire strikes and visual illusions. An in-depth knowledge of snow behavior and weather trends can help markedly in predicting the composition of snow covering a ...