This paper utilises a methodology named “Risk SituatiOn Awareness Provision” (RiskSOAP). RiskSOAP expresses the capability of a system to meet its safety objectives by controlling its processes and communicating threats and vulnerabilities to increase the situation awareness of its end-users and support …

Communication problems are acknowledged as hazardous eventualities affecting operations negatively. However, a few systematic attempts have been made to understand the pattern of communication issues and their contribution to safety events. In this paper, we present the AVAC-COM communication model and …

Modern safety thinking and models focus more on systemic factors rather than simple cause-effect attributions of unfavourable events on the behaviour of individual system actors. This study concludes previous research during which we had traced practices of new safety thinking practices (NSTPs) in aviation …

In the frame of an on-going 4-years research project, the Aviation Academy Safety Management Systems (AVAC-SMS) metric for the self-assessment of aviation Safety Management Systems (SMS) was designed based on the Safety Management Manual of the International Civil Aviation Organization and in cooperation …

Data mining seems to be a promising way to tackle the problem of unpredictability in MRO organizations. The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences therefore cooperated with the aviation industry for a two-year applied research project exploring the possibilities of data mining in this area. Researchers …

Physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) have important implications for health benefits. A growing number of people use consumer available wearables such as activity trackers, which claim to objectively monitor PA and SB in free-living conditions. These devices could provide essential information …

De synthese van goudcolloïden is een kleurrijk nanochemisch experiment. In deze bijdrage bespreken wij een studentenproject waar goudcolloïden worden bereid uit een goud(III)zout met behulp van honing. Het experiment is eenvoudig in uitvoering en geschikt voor leerlingen uit 5/6 vwo.

Hoe groter je diaconale betrokkenheid, hoe meer je opent naar de samenleving. Bert Roor interviewde voor zijn proefschrift 'Heilzame presentie' gemeenteleden die diaconaal actief zijn, op zoek naar hun leerervaringen. "Je kunt eindeloos preken horen, het gaat erom wat je er in je leven mee doet."

Kleuters hebben invloed op hoe ze omgaan met de wereld. Daar hebben ze vaardigheden bij nodig die ze nog moeten ontwikkelen. ‘The leader in me’ is een aanpak die kan helpen bij het ontwikkelen van hun persoonlijkheid en het grip krijgen op hun eigen leven.