ABSTRACT
Peripheralisation has multiple effects. Complacency and changes in communication and situational awareness are factors in the promotion of human error, human factors incidents and accidents (2.6.1). A variety of human factors accidents have been cited as part of the motivation for the development of cockpit resource management (CRM) programs. In this section, the origins, objectives, key concepts and effectiveness of CRM programs are considered. Some human factors accidents are reconsidered in the light of peripheralisation effects and their possible modulation by CRM. The ineffectiveness of CRM in providing a complete solution to human factors accidents is discussed.
