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This paper describes the different aspects of human factors in the aviation industry and the roles that these factors play.

Human factors are always present in accidents; it is the investigator that has the task of deciphering just what role they played in the accident.

Aviation is arguably, by nature, a very unforgiving and dangerous environment. The weakest link in the man machine interface is human factors. Human factors in aviation are a very profound and intense subject that is discussed, debated and written about by many people and at great length. There are many contributors that make up the general term human factors. Human factors as applied to aviation can cover human capabilities, system analysis and design, control and automation, skill acquisition, information processing and display, crew workload, and task-induced stress, human-machine interaction, environmental effects on performance, psychological and physiological influences, and accident prevention.

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