Shawn Pruchnicki, PhD FRAeS ATP CFII
Human Factors Investigation and Education
Trusted Aviation Expert Witness & Human Factors Consultant
Shawn Pruchnicki is a trusted aviation expert witness and brings years of professional experience across several domains. We provide comprehensive aviation litigation support, including accident reconstruction analysis, deposition, and trial testimony for plaintiff and defense counsel.
“Shawn is one of the best thinkers of the New View and its operational application today in North America”
Dr. Sidney Dekker Brisbane, Australia
We serve all of your investigation and education needs.
Whether you seek expertise in aviation systems, healthcare, or EMS/fire-ground operations, our organization in that we have front-line operator experience in all of these domains and others coupled with the academic background necessary to support your group. Let us help you to operate safely by protecting you, your employees and your entire organization with our proactive, individually tailored human factors solutions.
We have provided human factors expertise to organizations such as the Air Line Pilots Association, NASA, FAA, San Jose State University, numerous domestic and international airlines, The Ohio State University and CNN to name a few.
What We Offer
We offer our services for both large and small projects for organizations of any size. What we do not do is offer a pre-packaged program for sale. Every situation is different, every investigation is unique and every academic or operational endeavor requires a focus on the problems on hand and not a feel-good program to make your organization feel safer.
We understand and firmly believe that error counting, time since last event and other metrics commonly employed in many industries are just that. Feel good programs that do not actually try to understand the complexities of our social-technical systems. Classification and error categorization are no longer helpful in understand the emergent properties of these systems.
No single act causes safety and no single act causes a catastrophe. Spending your safety department time chasing these numbers and fitting sharp-end employee actions into neat categories will not reveal your true margin of safety.
As an experienced aviation expert witness, Dr. Pruchnicki consults on cases involving pilot error, fatigue, crew resource management (CRM), safety management systems (SMS), and standard operating procedures (SOP) deviations. View Aviation Expert Witness & legal Services
What We Offer
We offer our services for both large and small projects for organizations of any size. What we do not do is offer a pre-packaged program for sale. Every situation is different, every investigation is unique and every academic or operational endeavor requires a focus on the problems on hand and not a feel-good program to make your organization feel safer.
We understand and firmly believe that error counting, time since last event and other metrics commonly employed in many industries are just that. Feel good programs that do not actually try to understand the complexities of our social-technical systems. Classification and error categorization are no longer helpful in understand the emergent properties of these systems.
No single act causes safety and no single act causes a catastrophe. Spending your safety department time chasing these numbers and fitting sharp-end employee actions into neat categories will not reveal your true margin of safety.
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Contact | Shawn Pruchnicki, PhD FRAeS ATP CFII
Human Factors Investigation and Education
Phone
(614) 565-8795
Pruch120@yahoo.com
Location
Powell, Ohio
Hours
Monday – Friday | 9am – 6pm ( Eastern )
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