Wellbeing Skills

The decline in traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the skills and knowledge of some aviation professional due to a period of inactivity or not having the chance to work at all. There is a lot of follow on work in this area to provide more information to help both organisations manage the situation and for individual job roles. This material will be continually updated. 

Some things you can do

• Where possible, try to stay in touch with colleagues and the aviation industry in general. 
• Maintain training activities during lockdown and low traffic levels if you can - use online resources if they are available. 
• Keep in touch with industry webinars and events.

• I’ve done a general description that can be made more specific for each roll.

Depending on your role there are other things you can do. 

• Practice normal scan flows and procedures by designating 1 hour per day to brushing up on the manuals and competency observable behaviours.
• Use touch drills for Cabin Crew/Engineers/ATC and ‘Arm Chair’ flying for pilots to simulate the required actions.
• Refresh OMA/B/C/D/MEL weekly to ensure fluidity and currency with updates.
• Operate defensively and ask colleagues to cross check all actions and procedures
• Keep it simple to SOP’s
• Use appropriate fatigue management strategies and rest opportunities to ensure alertness and good level of performance
• Discuss with colleagues the potential threats are mitigation strategies. Create extra time to complete tasks and procedures.