An evaluation of the effectiveness of the crew resource management programme in naval aviation
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O'Connor, Paul
Jones, Douglas W.
McCauley, Michael E.
Buttrey, Samuel E.
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crew resource management
CRM
training evaluation
safety
CRM
training evaluation
safety
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2012
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The US Navy’s Crew Resource Management (CRM) training
programme has not been evaluated within the last decade. Reactions were
evaluated by analysing 51,570 responses to an item pertaining to CRM that is
part of a safety climate survey. A total of 172 responses were obtained on a
knowledge test. The attitudes of 553 naval aviators were assessed using an
attitudes questionnaire. The CRM mishap rate from 1997 until 2007 was
evaluated. It was found that naval aviators appear to think than CRM training is
useful, are generally knowledgeable of, and display positive attitudes towards,
the concepts addressed in the training. However, there is a lack of evidence to
support the view that CRM training is having an effect on the mishap rate. As
the next generation of highly automated aircraft becomes part of naval aviation,
there is a need to ensure that CRM training evolves to meet this new challenge.
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Operations Research
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O’Connor, P., Jones, D.,
McCauley, M. and Buttrey, S.E. (2012) ‘An evaluation of the effectiveness of
the crew resource management programme in naval aviation’, Int. J. Human
Factors and Ergonomics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.21–40.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.