LOSA, Line Operations Safety Audit

Heltmeich, R.L., Klinect, J.R. and Wilhelm, J.A. 2001. System Safety and Threat and Error Management The Line Operational Safety Audit (LOSA). Paper presented at the The Eleventh International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Columbus, OH The Ohio State University. 

International Civil Aviation Organization. (2002). Line operations safety audit (LOSA) (Doc 9803 AN/761). Montreal Author. 

Confidential Observations of Rail Safety (CORS) An Adaptation of Line Operations Safety Audit (LOSA)... 

Although a significant amount of human factors research has been conducted within the rail industry in recent years, still a far greater amount of such research is available from other transport industries such as aviation and road transport (Wilson and Norris, 2005). There are many similarities in the types of human faetors challenges encoimtered across various transport operations, so there is likely to be much the rail industry can leam from the way in which other transport industries have applied human factors research and expertise. Prior research ((Queensland Rail, 2003) highlighted a number of opportunities to adapt existing human error initiatives from the aviation domain to rail. One sneh initiative is the Line Operations Safety Audit (LOSA) program. 

Part 3 explores the air traffic control system, the use of Line Operations Safety Audits (LOSA) from aviation into the rail context, error management and training applications. 

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