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Readings in the sources

6 short readings for GEN-L, a topic at a time: what the test asks, and the sections that cover it. Sign in to tick them off as you read.

  1. Error classification, the "Dirty Dozen", latent and active failures K2, K10, K11

    For the test: Error principles; preconditions for unsafe acts; error types

    • FAA-H-8083-30B Ch. 14: Human Error · Types of Errors · Active & Latent · The “Dirty Dozen”

  2. All four, descriptively K1, K5, K7, K8

    For the test: Safety culture; physical and social environment; teamwork and leadership; professionalism and integrity

    • FAA-H-8083-30B Ch. 14: Elements of Human Factors · The Pear Model · People · Environment · Actions · Resources · Lack of Teamwork · Lack of Communication · Lack of Assertiveness · Norms

  3. Fatigue, stress, attention, memory, physical limits K4

    For the test: Human performance and limitations

    • FAA-H-8083-30B Ch. 14: Fatigue · Stress · Physical Stressors · Physiological Stressors · Psychological Stressors · Anthropometry

  4. Reporting routes and turnover practice K6, K9

    For the test: Hazard reporting; shift and task turnover

    • FAA-H-8083-30B Ch. 14: Where to Get Information

  5. Fatigue physiology R2

    For the test: Fatigue management and fitness for duty

    • FAA-H-8083-30B Ch. 14: FAA’s Maintenance Fatigue Section

  6. Locate information regarding human factors errors S3

    • FAA-H-8083-30B Ch. 14: Other Resources

Source: FAA-H-8083-30B, human factors chapter, with the FAA's maintenance human factors guidance material. Public domain. Pointers only.

Chapter and section verified against FAA-H-8083-30B, 2023 edition, on 28 August 2026. Page numbers are deliberately not cited: they move between printings, and a citation that rots silently is worse than a coarser one that stays true. Checked by our handbook citation check against our index of the handbook's chapters and sections.

Element The ACS asks for In the handbook Where in FAA-H-8083-30B What it does not give you
K2, K10, K11 Error principles; preconditions for unsafe acts; error types Error classification, the "Dirty Dozen", latent and active failures Ch. 14 — Human Error; Types of Errors; Active & Latent; The “Dirty Dozen” Error types as a diagnostic vocabulary rather than a list. GEN-L Concepts §3
K1, K5, K7, K8 Safety culture; physical and social environment; teamwork and leadership; professionalism and integrity All four, descriptively Ch. 14 — Elements of Human Factors; The Pear Model; People; Environment; Actions; Resources; Lack of Teamwork; Lack of Communication; Lack of Assertiveness; Norms Why these are the hardest part of the subject to learn remotely. GEN-L Concepts §1
K3 Event investigation — Not in this handbook Neither an investigation process nor just-culture material appears in FAA-H-8083-30B. The operative sources are below
K4 Human performance and limitations Fatigue, stress, attention, memory, physical limits Ch. 14 — Fatigue; Stress; Physical Stressors; Physiological Stressors; Psychological Stressors; Anthropometry —
K6, K9 Hazard reporting; shift and task turnover Reporting routes and turnover practice Ch. 14 — Lack of Communication; Where to Get Information What a turnover actually contains. GEN-L Procedures Procedure 2
R1 Selective reporting of hazards — — The element this unit exists to influence. GEN-L Concepts §5
R2 Fatigue management and fitness for duty Fatigue physiology Ch. 14 — Fatigue; FAA’s Maintenance Fatigue Section Duty-time realities, which the handbook understates
R3 Non-invasive condition-monitoring technologies — — —
S1 File a Malfunction or Defect Report — — FAA Form 8010-4 and its instructions are the object of the skill
S2 Brief a shift turnover — — GEN-L Procedures Procedure 2
S3 Locate information regarding human factors errors — Ch. 14 — Where to Get Information; Other Resources The FAA's own human factors resources are the object of the skill

The operative sources

  • FAA Form 8010-4, Malfunction or Defect Report, and its instructions. S1 is a real filing, not a worksheet.
  • The FAA's maintenance human factors material for S3, which is a lookup skill: the student works with the real source, not our summary of it.

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