Meanwhile, back on the subject of Human Factors, surely the problem is that current legislation is aimed at the wrong people? Human Factors is a high level managerial issue way beyond the influence of LAEs or even junior management. All the important HF issues are governed by company policy - manning levels, working hours, training, equipment standards and so on. The budget rules - after all companies are answerable only to their shareholders (in theory anyway) and profit is the sole reason for any company's existance.
No, human factors is not taken seriously, neither by the companies nor by the regulators. After listening to to a presentation by the man from the CAA I'm not sure they even understand what HF is all about themselves.
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