Crew Resource Management (CRM) training was first introduced in the late 1970s as a means to combating an increased number of accidents in which poor teamwork in the cockpit was a significant contributing factor. Since then, CRM training has expanded beyond the cockpit, for example, to cabin crews, maintenance crews, health care teams, nuclear power teams, and offshore oil teams. Not only has CRM expanded across communities, it has also drawn from a host of theories from multiple disciplines and evolved through a number of generations. Furthermore, a host of methodologies and tools have been developed that have allowed the community to better study and measure its effect on team performance and ultimately safety. Lacking, however, is a forum in which researchers and practitioners alike can turn to in order to understand where CRM has come from and where it is going. This volume, part of the 'Critical Essays on Human Factors in Aviation' series, proposes to do just that by providing a selection of readings which depicts the past, present, and future of CRM research and training.
Contents: Introduction; Part I History of Crew Resource Management: The
Naval Safety Center's aircrew coordination training program, Robert A. Alkov;
18 years of the CRM wars: a report from headquarters, Daniel E. Maurino; The
evolution of crew resource management training in commercial aviation, Robert
L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt and John A. Wilhelm; Crew resource
management: a time for reflection, Daniel E. Maurino. Part II Theoretical
Developments: Dyads and triads at 35,000 feet, H. Clayton Foushee; Why crew
resource management? Empirical and theoretical bases of human factors in
aviation, Robert L. Helmreich and H. Clayton Foushee; Training and research
for teamwork in the military aircrew, Carolyn Prince and Eduardo Salas. Part
III Methodological Tools and Developments: Cockpit management attitudes.
Human factors, Robert L. Helmreich; LOFT: full mission simulation as crew
resource management training, Roy E. Butler; A methodology for enhancing crew
resource management training, Eduardo Salas, Carolyn Prince, Clint A. Bowers,
Renée Stout, Randall L. Oser, and Janis A. Cannon-Bowers; System safety and
threat and error management: the line operations safety audit (LOSA), Robert
L. Helmreich, James R. Klinect and John A. Wilhelm; Methods used to evaluate
the effectiveness of flightcrew CRM training in the UK aviation industry,
Paul O'Connor, Rhona Flin, Georgina Fletcher and Peter Hemsley; Development
of the NOTECHS (non-technical skills) system for assessing pilot's CRM
skills, Rhona Flin, Lynn Martin, Klaus-Martin Goeters, Hans-Jürgen Hormann,
René Amalberti, Claude Valot and Herman Nijhuis. Part IV Evaluation of CRM
Training: Does CRM training improve teamwork skills in the cockpit? 2
evaluation studies, Eduardo Salas, Jennifer E. Fowlkes, Renée J. Stout, Dana
M. Milanovich and Carolyn Prince; Team training in the skies: does crew
resource management (CRM) training work?, Eduardo Salas, C. Shawn Burke,
Clint A. Bowers and Katherine A. Wilson; Techniques used to evaluate crew
resource management training: a literature review, Paul O'Connor, Rhona Flin
and Georgina Fletcher; Does crew resource management training work? An
update, extension, and some critical needs, Eduardo Salas, Katherine A.
Wilson, C. Shawn Burke and Dennis C. Wightman. Part V Crew Resource
Management: Beyond Aviation: Anesthesia crisis resource management training:
teaching anethesiologists to handle critical incidents, Steven K. Howard,
David M. Gaba, Kevin J. Fish, George Yang and Frank H. Sarnquist;
Simulation-based training in anaesthesia crisis resource management (ACRM): a
decade of experience, David M. Gaba, Steven K. Howard, Kevin J. Fish, Brian
E. Smith and Yasser A. Sowb; 4 generations of maintenance resource management
programs in the United States: an analysis of the past, present, and future,
James C. Taylor and Manoj S. Patankar; Crew resource management training for
offshore oil production teams, Paul O'Connor and Rhona Flin; Index.
Eduardo Salas University of Central Florida, USA, Katherine A. Wilson, University of Central Florida, USA and Eleana Edens, Federal Aviation Administration, USA