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Record Nr.

UNINA9910695352203321

Autore

Broach Dana

Titolo

Relationship of air traffic control specialist age to en route operational errors [[electronic resource] ] : final report / / Dana Broach and David J. Schroeder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aerospace Medicine

Ft. Belvior, VA : , : Available to the public through the Defense Technical Information Center

Springfield, Va. : , : Available to the public through the National Technical Information Service, , 2005

Descrizione fisica

i, 11 pages : digital, PDF file

Altri autori (Persone)

SchroederDavid J

Soggetti

Air traffic controllers - Ability testing - United States

Ability, Influence of age on

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 6, 2006).

"December 2005."

"DOT/FAA/AM-05/22."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 9-11).

Sommario/riassunto

Public Law 92-297, passed in 1971, requires that air traffic control specialists (ATCSs) hired after May 16, 1972 retire at age 56. The underlying rationale was that as controllers aged, the cumulative effects of stress, fatigue (from shift work), and age-related cognitive changes created a safety risk (U.S. House of Representatives, 1971). This hypothesis has been considered in two recent studies of en route operational errors (OEs). The Center for Naval Analyses (CNA, 1995) found no relationship between controller age and OEs. Broach (1999) reported that the probability of involvement in an OE increased with age. The purpose of this study was to re-examine the hypothesis that controller age, controlling for experience, was related to OEs. En route OE records (3,054) were matched with non-supervisory ATCS staffing records for the period FY1997-2003. Poisson regression was used to



model OE count as a function of the explanatory variables age and experience using the SPSSĀ® version 11.5 General Loglinear (GENLOG) procedure.