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Robert Helmreich's 2004 Flight Safety Foundation/Airbus Human Factors Award
Posted: July 26, 2004
Robert L. Helmreich received the 2004 Flight Safety Foundation/Airbus Human Factors Award during the Flight Safety Foundation's 16th Annual European Aviation Safety Seminar (EASS) in Barcelona, Spain March 15-17, 2004. The Human Factors Award was established in 1999 to recognize ?outstanding achievement in human factors contributions to aviation safety.? The award was instituted to encourage human factors research that would help reduce human error – one of the most common elements in aviation accidents. Read more about Dr. Helmreich in Safety First: From medicine to air travel, leading researchers find ways to manage human error
