An Aviation Professional's Guide to Wellbeing

Abstract

Regardless of its technical nature, the aviation industry is founded on its numerous dedicated professional people. Safety performance is directly related to the manner in which people from front line staff to CEOs perform their various roles, and overall performance relies on individual and collective states of wellbeing. Today, the scenarios of continued operations, cessation of operations and re-establishing operations are generating some unusual challenges, many of which are related to how we all feel about the current crisis situation. The fundamental personal challenges associated with wellbeing are not new and will remain important. Whatever our position or responsibilities, the current context requires all of us to think hard about our own wellbeing and that of others. Our mindset will play a key role in determining how the Covid-19 crisis impacts us. If we can see ourselves as having some control over our own lives, rather than being helpless in the face of the crisis, we have a chance of emerging into a post-viral world in better shape. Even in these challenging times there are plenty of things we can control. The purpose of this document is to help you improve your personal wellbeing. Through this process, it should also help those with whom you socialize and work. We are critically dependent on each other in both a wellbeing and a safety sense.This document describes the idea of wellbeing and offers some simple tools, based on some fundamental psychological concepts, which allow each one of us to make decisions and take actions that will maintain or improve our state of wellbeing.