Factor Affecting Performance

Performence of AME depends upon fitness and health, stress, time pressures, workload, fatigue and the effects of medication, alcohol and drugs 

    1. Fitness and Health - Fitness and health can have a significant affect upon job performance (both physical and cognitive). 
Responsibility falls upon the individual  to determine whether he is not well enough to work on a particular day.
      The job of an AME is  physically demanding and carried out in widely varying physical environments, including cramped spaces, extremes of temperature, etc

Pre-employment Disposition

     A disposition is a quality of character, a habit, a preparation, a state of readiness, or a tendency to act in a specified way that may be learned.

Some employers may require a medical upon commencement of employment. This allows them to judge the fitness and health of an applicant 

   2. Stress: Domestic and Work Related - Stress can be defined as any force, that when applied to a system, causes some significant modification of its form, where forces can be physical, psychological or due to social pressures. From a human viewpoint, stress results from the imposition of any demand or set of demands which require us to react, adapt or behave in a particular manner in order to cope with or satisfy them. Up to a point, such demands are stimulating and useful, but if the demands are beyond our personal capacity to deal with them, the resulting stress is a problem.
   3. Time Pressure and Deadlines AME encounter deadline, and consequently time pressure.This might be actual pressure where clearly specified deadlines are imposed by an external source (e.g. management or supervisors) and passed on to engineers, or perceived where engineers feel that there are time pressures when carrying out tasks, even when no definitive deadlines have been set in stone. In addition, time pressure may be selfimposed, in which case engineers set themselves deadlines to complete work (e.g.completing a task before a break or before the end of a shift).
   4. Workload - Overload and Underload -The degree of stimulation exerted on an individual caused by a task is generally referred to as workload, and can be separated into physical workload and mental workload.
   5. Sleep, Fatigue and Shift Work - Sleep is a natural state of reduced consciousness involving changes in body and brain -  AME performance is affected by alcohol, medication or illicit drugs.It is an offence for safety critical personnel to carry out their duties whilst under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

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