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A Little About Who We Are
Gordon Dupont - Biography Gordon worked for Transport Canada from March 1993 to August 1999 as a Special Programs Coordinator. In this position he was responsible for coordinating with the aviation industry in the development of programs which would serve to reduce maintenance error. In this position he assisted in the development of Human Performance in Maintenance (HPIM) Part 1 and 2. The "Dirty Dozen" maintenance Safety posters were an outcome of HPIM Pt 1.Prior to working for Transport, Gordon worked for seven years as a Technical Investigator for the Canadian Aviation Safety Board later to become the Canadian Transportation Safety Board. In this position he saw first hand the tragic results of maintenance and human error. Gordon has held the position of principal of an aviation vocational training school as well as Chief Engineer for a corporate turbine aircraft. He has been an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and Commercial pilot in Canada, United States and Australia. He is the past president and founding member of the Pacific Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Association. He is a founding member and a board member of the Maintenance And Ramp Safety Society (MARSS). He has worked on and held signing authority on aircraft from the Piper Cub on floats through to the Boeing 747 . He also owns a pile of parts stored in his hangar which will one day fly again as a Stearman (If and when he retires). Gordon is often now called; "The Father of the Dirty Dozen" but feels that is one child no one would want to sire. He has had the pleasure of providing Human Factors training around the world, from Australia to Sweden, from China to Portugal, from Singapore to Holland, the USA, UK, Ireland, St. Martin and more. Gordon retired from Transport Canada in 1999 and is now a private consultant. He is interested in any work that will serve to make our industry Safer.Check here to see how others in the world see me. #1
 Bill Foyle - BiographyBill has been an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer for many aviation companies, beginning with the RCAF and CP Air. He has been General Manager for a major component of the Air BC group. He has taught Aircraft Maintenance at the BC Vocational School, now British Columbia Institute of Technology, and until 1993 was the Associate Dean of Aviation Programs at BCIT. He was a major contributor in the development of a "modern" wing for the DHC2 Beaver. He was on the original industry committee which worked to develop this program and has remained with this committee, helping to actively promote human factors training for all maintenance personnel. While he has retired to the Sunshine Coast to build his dream home he continues to work with the industry through System Safety Services on Human Factors related projects.  Renée Dupont-Adam - Biography
Renée Dupont-Adam is the
Vice-President and a Co-Facilitator of “Human Factors Training for
System Safety Services in Vancouver, Canada.Renée began her life in aviation when she took her first flight from Lae – Port Morsby, Papua New Guinea in her fathers’ Cessna 182 at the ripe old age of 3 weeks old. From that point forward, Renée has been involved in all aspects of aviation, including: setting up the Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Association (PAMEA), the Maintenance and Ramp Safety Society (MARSS) and helping present the 1st World Conference on Maintenance Errors and Their Prevention in 1995. Renée also held the position of Editor for “GroundEffects” from 1997 – 2002. In 1993 the “Dirty Dozen” posters were developed by her father, Gordon Dupont, whom is known as the “Father of the Dirty Dozen” and thus she became the “Sister of the Dirty Dozen”. She has presented papers for the Flight Safety Foundation, WATS, CHC Safety Summit, Women in Aviation, etc. Renee is a member of the Women in Aviation and Quarter Centery Club. She also is currently working on her Private Pilots Licence and now holds her Student Licence. Renée continues to facilitate workshops all over North America in the interest of furthering safety awareness, by helping engineers and companies develop “Safety Nets” to lessen the occurrence of making the mistakes they don’t intend to make. Renée has starred in several of the training videos produced and distributed by System Safety.  Renée has also run several years in the 60 km "Walk to End Breast
Cancer" and completed 10 - 1/2 Marathons.
Roger Hughes - BiographyRoger enlisted in the United States Navy as an Aircraft Structural Technician in 1962. After his tour of duty he enrolled in Spartan's Aeronautical School, Tulsa, OK. and received his Airframe and Powerplant Certificate. From 1967 - 2000 he worked for American Airlines as a MRO Structural Technician, a Line Maintenance and Avionics Technician, an Aircraft Line Instructor, a Supervisor of Maintenance Training, Technical Foreman and a Quality Assurance Manager Eastern Division. In 2000 - 2008 Roger was employed by JetBlue Airways as Director Quality and later as Manager of Technical Operation Human Factors. In 2009 Roger founded Decoding Human Factors LLC, an aviation human factors training and consulting business. He is the editor and publisher of Aviation Human Factors Industry News publication. Roger recognized that we humans require constant reminders of our penchant to commit human error. Thus in Nov. 2005, after receiving human factors training, he started that reminder for JetBlue with weekly HF short stories. He kindly shared these valuable reminders with the rest of the world and you can find all of these stores by clicking on “Articles” on the home page of this website. Roger also is a volunteer with the FAA FASTeam and enjoys presenting human factors for pilots and technicians.  Paul Jenkins - Biography>Paul has been facilitating "Human Performance in Maintenance" (HPIM) for the Department of National Defense since 1994 with great success. He has a keen interest in the program and firmly believes that one day all aircraft maintainers will one day have a working awareness of the "Human Factor" which causes so many errors. Paul joined the RCAF in 1965 following employment as a Quality Control Inspector for Douglas Aircraft of Canada. Trained as an Airframe Technician, he was posted to Winnipeg where he worked on aircraft such as the Chipmunk, Tutor, T-33, C-45, C-47 and Albatross. From 1971 to 1974 he flew on the C-47, Dakota as a Technical Crewman. In 1974 he was posted to Trenton and flew on the CC-115 Buffalo as a Flight Engineer. He later instructed on this aircraft. Following Trenton he was posted to Greenwood on the CP-140 Aurora. In 1988 he was promoted to Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) and posted to Comox, BC. Paul retired in 1994 and holds an Air force Reserve position. He is presently employed as the 19 Wing Deputy Flight Safety Officer. It is in this position that he started HPIM for the Canadian Forces. He has trained over 600 military technicians with great success and looks forward to working through System Safety Services to reduce human error in maintenance.  Johnny Rush - BiographyJohnny enjoys every aspect of aviation. The U.S. Air Force
offered him the opportunity to become an A&E mechanic, which he did until
pilot training became a reality. The result was flying large transport aircraft
over most of the world. Later, his duties included being a maintenance officer
supervising an organization in the cold of Alaska. After retiring from the U.S.
Air Force, he found a very rewarding career teaching A&P mechanic students
at Clover Park Technical College. Johnny is an A&P mechanic with an IA
rating, holds an ATP, and has a Bachelors Degree in Occupational Education.Johnny received the "Mechanic of the Year award from the Washington Department of Transportation, Aviation Division, in 1992, and the "Maintenance Technician of the Year" award, from the FAA, in 1993. 
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 Brian Small - BiographyBrian Small
started flying in 1965 and obtained his fixed wing license before he went rotary
wing in 1967. He held an ATPL (H)
and has flown over 16,000 hours in helicopters from the Bell 47 and Hiller UH-12
to the Sikorsky S61 and S76. The majority of those hours were flown IFR in support of oil exploration and production operations, worldwide. In fact Brian has flown in over 40 different countries, some of which don’t exist anymore. Brian spent five years as the Vice President Safety for CHC Helicopters International where he saw first hand the need for and value of human factors training for all personnel. Brian is also fully trained on ISO 9000 and is a certified lead auditor. On retirement he decided that he would enjoy doing his part to making our industry safer by helping to train the human to recognize what causes them to make an error and what safety nets they can put in place to avoid making that error.  Fred
Mabonga - Biography
Trained in the United Kingdom at Brunel College and Oxford Air Training School, Fred obtained his Aircraft Maintenance Engineer’s Licence in 1982 issued by the UK Civil Aviation Authority. He also completed the UKCAA Airworthiness Course in 1996. He completed the IATA Course on Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Management in 1995 and the IATA Course on Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance in 2003. He has been an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer for many aviation companies in various countries, and has also held management positions including as Engineering Manager and Quality Assurance Manager at Air Namibia and Air Botswana. 1983 to 1987 he was a Technical Instructor at Air Zimbabwe where he taught Aircraft Engineers. 1998 to 2000 he was Deputy Chief of Aviation Safety at the Directorate of Civil Aviation in Namibia. He was in charge of Airworthiness and Chairman of the technical committee on aviation regulations. He has type training and experience on various aircraft from ATR42, BAe146 up to Boeing 747-400. Fred is now an Aviation Technical Consultant. He has a passion for aviation and is interested in training and promoting Safety in the industry. email: dupontg@system-safety.com Webmaster: Renée Dupont-Adam |
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