The importance of Human Factors is becoming increasingly apparent in the field of aircraft maintenance, as is also reflected by licensing requirements with respect to Human Factors in JAR-66 of the Joint Aviation Authorities. Introducing Human Factors into the aircraft maintenance organisation implicates a need for training, amongst other elements such as error reporting systems and error-tolerant aircraft design.
Human Factors training is considered necessary initially for Continuation Training, to offer the resent certified staff the opportunity to meet the requirements of JAR-66. In the long term, Human Factors should be integrated with technical training, within the company as well as ithin vocational training. This integration of Human factors and technical maintenance raining is expected to limit the extra time to training and increase the transfer to the aircraft aintenance practice.
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