Mental Wellness Gets Post-Covid Safety Focus
Summit explores pandemic links, offers solutions for mental health issues affecting aviation safety
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The Covid pandemic’s long-term effects include a renewed focus on mental health’s role in aviation safety and overall wellness, a development welcomed by experts at the Flight Safety Foundation’s Business Aviation Safety Summit (BASS) in May in Savannah, Georgia.

“The silver lining about Covid is that we are recognizing compromises that [result from] stress and [a lack of] mental wellness,” said Quay Snyder, M.D., president and CEO of Aviation Medicine Advisory Service and moderator of the Summit’s Wellness and Mental Health session. “Before it was kind of a secret and now it’s out in the open.”

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