Flight Safety Foundation–Boeing
Aviation Safety Lifetime Achievement Award

presented to

Robert Helmreich, Ph.D.
University of Texas Human Factors Research Project

For his more than 20 years as a leader of research and development in the improvement of crew performance.

Dr. Helmreich is one of the founders of the original crew resource management (CRM) initiatives begun in the 1980s. Since then, safety-enhancing CRM programs have been adopted by air carriers throughout the world as one of the most important methods for reducing human error as a causal factor in aviation incidents and accidents. CRM principles have been modified for application to aircraft maintenance and air traffic controllers. In addition, the current initiative concerning threat and error management that is now being used by major air carriers is an outgrowth of CRM training.

His research also developed the principle of the line operational safety audit (LOSA), a tool for collecting safety data during regularly scheduled flight operations. Every U.S. air carrier uses this method, and the International Civil Aviation Organization has named LOSA as a best practice for worldwide aviation.

Dr. Helmreich, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, is principal investigator of the University of Texas Human Factors Research Project. This group studies individual and team performance, human error and the influence of culture on behavior in aviation and medicine.

Flight Safety Foundation and the award’s sponsor, The Boeing Co., are pleased to recognize the achievements of Robert Helmreich, Ph.D.

FSF 58th International Air Safety Seminar
Moscow, Russia
November 9, 2005

Stuart Matthews
President and CEO
Flight Safety Foundation

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