AF Technical Committee · AF/TC 14
Human Factors, Competence & Professional Practice
Continuing AF Technical Committee for human factors, competence and professional aerospace practice.
Understand the distinction
A technical home, not a blanket approval authority.
Read scope, responsibilities and related work together. Cross-disciplinary subjects can need more than one Committee.
Continuity and coordination
A Committee retains subject knowledge, coordinates review and connects related Working Group activity. Its public scope is the starting point for placing a question.
Technical focus areasFocused execution
A Working Group addresses a bounded question, evidence task or draft. A completed draft or Committee recommendation is distinct from authorized publication.
Technical Work ProcessParticipation is considered separately
Relevant experience and competence need to fit the subject and the applicable arrangements. Membership alone does not confer an appointment or voting authority.
Eligibility and participationCommittee purpose
Purpose
Technical systems perform through the people who design, operate, maintain and oversee them. AF/TC 14 provides a continuing technical home for examining human performance, competence and professional practice across aerospace settings.
Coordinates technical questions about human-system interaction, competence needs and safety-related professional practice.
Continuing technical role
What the Committee Does
Within its defined scope, AF/TC 14 maintains continuity between related questions and the work developed to address them.
- Examines human-factors questions across design, operations and maintenance.
- Reviews competence and training needs linked to technical change.
- Connects human performance with safety, autonomy and professional-development work.
- Supports Working Groups on focused human-system or competence questions.
Defined subject boundary
Technical Scope
The Committee's technical scope provides the subject boundary for continuing coordination. Related questions may still require input from other Committees.
Human performance
- Human factors and ergonomics
- Safety-related human performance
- Human-system interaction
- Operational and maintenance practice
Competence and profession
- Technical personnel capability
- Training needs
- Workforce development
- Professional practice and continuing development
Topic route
How technical work enters the Committee
A question can be identified within the Committee's scope or referred through AF Technical Work. The appropriate route depends on relevance, existing evidence and the work required.
- 01Technical need identified
- 02Topic submitted or referred
- 03Scope and existing landscape reviewed
- 04Appropriate route considered
- 05Working Group, research or direct review where appropriate
- 06Committee review and technical recommendation
- 07Applicable AF output or decision process
Focused technical development
Expert Working Groups
Where a defined question requires focused development, the Committee may support an Expert Working Group with an appropriate mandate, expertise and expected output. Work may include research, evidence review, technical drafting, landscape analysis, comparison or consultation preparation.
A Working Group reports its findings through the relevant technical structure; it does not independently make a final AF institutional decision.
Connected expertise
Cross-Committee Coordination
Many aerospace questions cross technical boundaries. AF/TC 14 may coordinate with the Committees below when their expertise is relevant; these are peer relationships, not lines of subordination.
Technical participation
Interested in contributing to AF/TC 14?
Human-factors experts, educators, operators, maintenance specialists and competence professionals can contribute practice-based evidence. Eligible members and relevant technical experts may share their interests through the Federation's participation routes. Membership does not automatically create a Committee appointment.
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