Hi everyone,
I'm doing a Human Factors paper (yeah, the subject everyone loves to hate) for a degree, and my next assignment is on the right of aviation businesses to randomly test for drug and alcohol substances on workers involved in safety sensitive roles.
Personally I think the main reason airlines are doing it is to keep pax happy, by having them think everyone is 'clean'. I don't think drug and alcohol abuse is that rife in the aviation community (on a whole), although the level of abuse may change in different aviation environments (Helo, Training, Commercial, ATO, ATC, Maintenance).
I do have an aviaiton background (LAME, Glidier pilot, PPL student with share in Piper Super Cub), so plain language is not required
Anybody have an opinion about this??
Thanks for the help.
NOOOBY