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Ground Effects

Ground Effects was a newsletter published from July 1996 to Winter of 2004 by the Maintenance and Ramp Safety Society (MARSS) with the goal of reporting aviation maintenance and Ground Crew Error Reduction Efforts. This newsletter has been archived here for some of its excellent articles which apply today.

  • Volume 3 Issue 2  In the 9th issue,  The Big Picture, From the NEW Editor,  A Near Death Experience, Cinderella in the Flight Dept., Go'en Over the Line, The Making of a Miracle
     

  • Volume 3 Issue 1  In the 8th issue,  Dupont aims for "Zero Incidents", Maintenance Error Investigations Need a Push and Will no Good Deeds go Unpunished?
     

  •  Volume 2 Issue 5  In the 7th issue, Team Resource Management at Delta Airlines, Discipline: Why Process is More Important Than Outcome and Blind obedience equals disaster
     

  •  Volume 2 Issue 4  In the 6th issue, we read about how behaviour-based safety reduces maintenance injuries and we read about discipline and the role of rule violations.
     

  •  Volume 2 Issue 3  In the 5th issue, there is a extremely interesting article from David Marx regarding Discipline in the workplace and many other Human Factors articles. 
     

  •  Volume 2 Issue 2  In the 4th issue,  there are articles on Human Factors in the Coast Guard, Evaluating Maintenance Human Factors Editorials and Relating Human Factors and FOD.
     

  •  Volume 2 Issue 1  In the 3rd issue, there is a very intriguing article regarding Human Factors
     

  •  Volume 1 Issue 2  In the 2nd issue the question is asked, "Maintenance Human Factors - Are we Getting Anywhere?" and  The "Test Flight of HPIM Part 2"
     

  •  Volume 1 Issue 1  In this 1st issue of GroundEffects, you will find many articles discussing Human Factors and the importance of Safety Training.