AFAB 130 Safety Ethics Test Questions and Correct
Answers
A) Signing off an aircraft without performing the maintenance being a federal offense,
therefore not wanting to do it. B) Signing it off to avoid punishment from the supervisor.
Level 1 - Self Interest
A) Consulting with peers to determine standing up to the supervisor to be accepted in the
AMT community, or to sign off the aircraft to be accepted.
Level 2 - Conforming to One's Society
A) Not signing it off without maintenance because it's disrespectful of the legal and moral
responsibility and B) as a passenger he/she expects other AMT's to be honest and faithful.
Level 3 - Principle of Respect
They utilize rule-based decision making to either abide by certain professional/regulatory
criteria or to fit in a particular workgroup.
During the formative stages of one's professional life, what type of decision-making processes
do they utilize and why?
Ability to work effectively in high-performing teams and the emphasis is on interpersonal
communication and goal sharing in order to distinguish between working in groups vs teams.
Provide the following definitions of professionalism which emphasize operational perspectives.
What statement did Beabout & Wennemann add to these definitions that help emphasize the
need for a profession to make moral decisions in accordance with the Level 3 principle of
respect? (Taylor & Christensen)
Ability of an individual to maintain high individual as well as systemic reliability under varying
levels of degrading factors.
Patankar & Taylor
Answers
A) Signing off an aircraft without performing the maintenance being a federal offense,
therefore not wanting to do it. B) Signing it off to avoid punishment from the supervisor.
Level 1 - Self Interest
A) Consulting with peers to determine standing up to the supervisor to be accepted in the
AMT community, or to sign off the aircraft to be accepted.
Level 2 - Conforming to One's Society
A) Not signing it off without maintenance because it's disrespectful of the legal and moral
responsibility and B) as a passenger he/she expects other AMT's to be honest and faithful.
Level 3 - Principle of Respect
They utilize rule-based decision making to either abide by certain professional/regulatory
criteria or to fit in a particular workgroup.
During the formative stages of one's professional life, what type of decision-making processes
do they utilize and why?
Ability to work effectively in high-performing teams and the emphasis is on interpersonal
communication and goal sharing in order to distinguish between working in groups vs teams.
Provide the following definitions of professionalism which emphasize operational perspectives.
What statement did Beabout & Wennemann add to these definitions that help emphasize the
need for a profession to make moral decisions in accordance with the Level 3 principle of
respect? (Taylor & Christensen)
Ability of an individual to maintain high individual as well as systemic reliability under varying
levels of degrading factors.
Patankar & Taylor
