Human factor in the context of assessment of psychophysical predispositions of a groundhandling employee

The international airport is a public utility facility, which is designed to carry passengers and freight by air means of transport. It is a particularly complex anthropotechnical object that in a very visible way combines technical elements and elements related to the human factor, which is estimated as the main cause of incidents in civil aviation among employees. Aircraft service, in addition to specialized substantive knowledge, also requires high psychophysical predispositions, allowing you to meet the conditions of work under stress and under constant pressure of time. The performance of these strictly defined obligations is necessary for the scheduled performance of air operations. The pressure of time and the organization of human work is of key importance here not only for ensuring the operator’s operational continuity but also for the functioning of the enterprise. The role of the human factor in the studied area is a critical element for the safety of aviation operations. It is described by such methods as SHELL and BOW TIE, which propose solutions to minimize the risk of aviation events. The work, on the other hand, presents the development of these concepts by introducing the meth-od of predisposing the airport personnel using a specialized device - Polipsychograph - a system dedicated to design and carry out psychological tasks testing mental, cognitive and motor skills of a man in connection with the assessment of his professional abilities. The work contains the results of 40 tests carried out on employees who deal with ground handling of the airport on a daily basis. The re-search showed the dependence of the employee’s predisposition on the quality of the work entrusted to him.