ABSTRACT
The United States (US) Navy began questioning the extent to which aviators in the fleet were involved in aviation accidents due to human error, particularly violations of the rules. This chapter explores the use of Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) as a data analysis tool within the US Navy Corps or Marine Corps. Not only can HFACS identify human error trends in accident and incident data, but it is particularly useful for tracking the effectiveness of selective interventions as well. Introduced to a limited number of squadrons in the late 1980s, aircrew coordination training (ACT), as it came to be known, was based largely on leadership and assertiveness training developed by the airlines to address their own concerns crew resource management. By the early 1990s, ACT had become fully integrated into both initial and recurrent naval training and was expanded to cover such things as workload management and communication skills.
