Commercial aviation has steadily increased the amount of passengers safely carried year after year. How has human performance helped the aviation community achieve such amazing safety records? Andrew will introduce why aviation style checklists are so effective at trapping errors.

Andrew Dingee graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in Economics. Upon graduation, Andrew was commissioned into the United States Marine Corps as a Second Lieutenant. Two years later, Andrew earned his “wings of golds” and flew fighters for 27 years. While in the Marines, he earned numerous awards including the Joe Foss award for aerial combat maneuvers – dog fighting. In 1999, he was hired at United Airlines as a pilot and promoted into a variety of safety leadership positions and was on the safety management system team for United. For his accomplishments, he was nominated for the Flight Safety Foundation Brownlow award. As a qualified NTSB accident investigator and incident reporting expert, he implemented changes to United’s safety system that increased safety and efficiency to the world’s largest airline. In 2010, Andrew successfully implemented aviation style checklists and procedures into the oil and gas industry that reduced risk and increased efficiency - saving hundreds of millions of dollars. In 2018, Andrew completed his book titled, “Delivering the Right Stuff”. His book highlights the journey on how the airline industry migrated away from blaming the individual to understanding why people make mistakes. Recently, Andrew retired as the Chief Standards Officer for bpx energy. In this position, Andrew established the industry’s first standardization department charged with developing and maintaining execution excellence which drastically reduced HSE lagging indicators by 50% or more. Within this position, he developed HSE leading indicators that allowed the organization to analyze routinely collected safety related data to prevent incidents.