Members of the United States Helicopter Safety Team (www.USHST.org) will be providing their safety advice for Heli-Expo participants in Anaheim at 21 different workshops on a wide variety of topics.  Many of the topics link to proposed safety enhancements that the USHST is supporting.

The USHST promotes safety and works to reduce accidents through a government and industry cooperative effort that has resulted in a decrease in U.S. civil helicopter accidents since the organization’s inception in 2013. 

The full list of USHST-related workshops scheduled at Heli-Expo 2020 is the following:

• Elevating Safety Culture and Professionalism                 Jan. 27, 11:00 am  (*)
• Maintenance Safety: First Solutions That Work               Jan. 28, 8:00 am
• Aviation Fatigue: Identification and Mitigation            Jan. 28, 9:15 am
• Seeing 20/20 with Enhanced Helicopter Vision Systems  Jan. 28, 9:15 am  (*)
• Human Factors: Protecting Us from Ourselves            Jan. 28, 10:30 am
• BowTie Methodology for Safety Management                Jan. 28, 10:30 am and Jan. 29, 1:30 pm
• The IIMC Threat: Avoidance and Survival                  Jan. 28, 12 noon and Jan. 29, 4:00 pm  (*)
• The Vuichard Recovery: A Better Way Out of

         Vortex Ring State                                                     Jan. 28, 12 noon and Jan. 29, 4:00 pm

• Essential Skills for CRM Instructors                              Jan. 28, 1:15 pm
• Flying Blind                                                                 Jan. 28, 2:30 pm
• What Do I Need to Know About My Flight Gear?       Jan. 28, 2:30 pm
• Good Data Drives Good Decisions: HFDM                    Jan. 28, 8:00 am  (*)
• Helicopter Scenario-Based Training                               Jan. 28, 2:30 pm  (*)
• What the FRAT?  Flight Risk Assessment Tools         Jan. 29, 9:15 am
• Simulation: Keep Learning from Your Mistakes             Jan. 29, 9:15 am  (*)
• Autorotations Reexamined                                          Jan. 29, 10:30 am
• Autorotations: Reality Exposed                                   Jan, 29, 1:30 pm
• Improving Inflight Risk Mitigation                                Jan. 29, 1:30 pm  (*)
• SMS for Small-Fleet or Private Operators                   Jan. 29, 1:30 pm
• IIMC: You Can Survive                                                Jan. 29, 2:45 pm  (*)
• Managing Complexity to Form a Simple SMS                Jan. 29, 2:45 pm

The workshops marked with an (*) reflect proposed safety enhancements that the USHST is pursuing in order to reduce the number of fatal helicopter accidents.  Details about all of the USHST safety enhancements can be found on the web site at www.USHST.org

U.S. Helicopter Fatal Accident Rate (5 Year Moving Average, 2001-2019)

*2019 includes Jan – Oct Only