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Engineering Maintenance Standing Group (EMSG)
Aims
To influence the Aviation Industry, in order that safety and operational efficiency is improved through the adoption of Human Factors principles and practices.
- Chairman: Group Capt Andy Ebdon, MSc BA CEng MCMI FRAeS
- EMSG Aims, objectives and terms of reference
- EMSG Group membership
Position Papers and Reports
- Aviation Maintenance position papers and reports
- Reports and presentations from a conference on the Business Case for Human Factors in Maintenance Organisations.
Areas of interest
- Human Factors training strategies, for example HF component of Maintenance NVQs.
- CHIRP reports related to maintenance.
- Accident and incident investigation.
- Joint Aviation Regulations (eg. JAR145, JAR-OPS JAR21, JAR-M and JAR-66) and how these address Human Factors
- Liaison with the RAeS Airworthiness & Maintenance Group.
- Liaison with other UK aviation maintenance and engineering committees (eg. UKOTG or UKFSC) that have Human Factors interests and projects.
News
- A mini-conference on Safety Culture
- A mini-conference on maintenance human factors training
- CAP716 (issue 2) , published on 18 Dec 2003, contains guidance material in support of EASA/JAR145 human factors requirements. (N.B.: this document is over 200 pages in size).
- Presentations from the October 2002 seminar on fatigue and working hours in aviation maintenance may be found on the conference page
- JAR145 amendment 5 contains changes to JAR145 concerning human factors (originally NPA12). Additional guidance material is contained in the JAA Maintenance Human Factors Working Group (about 20 pages), which is also available to download from the jaa website http://www.jaa.nl