Element to consider in checking risk and hazard in aviation
The airplane program must ensure that safety risks encountered in aviation activities are controlled in order to achieve their safety performance targets. Safety risk management includes hazard identification, safety risk assessment and the implementation of appropriate control and recovery measures.
All these are what programs which must intimate Aviation workers of what is required of them at every particular time of duty.
Below are various things the aviation organization should do to identify risks and hazard management in aviation.
– Organization must ensure to have a reporting system to capture errors, hazards and near misses that is simple to use and accessible to all personnel.
– Organization must proactively identify all the major hazards and assessed the risks related to its current activities.
– There should be a safety reporting system that provides feedback to the reporter of any actions taken (or not taken) and, where appropriate, to the rest of the organization.
– Safety investigations should be carried out to identify underlying causes and potential hazards for existing and future operations.
– Safety reports must be acted upon in a timely manner
– Hazard identification is an ongoing process and involves all key personnel and appropriate stakeholders must be active in decision making.
Organization must ensure that personnel who are responsible for investigating reports are trained in investigation techniques. Investigations establish causal/contributing factors (why it happened, not just what happened).
This also helps personnel express confidence and trust in the organization’s reporting policy and process.
– Every hazard identified must be documented and kept available for future reference and organization uses. The results of investigation of incidents and accidents as a source for hazard identification in the system.
The element is satisfied when aviation safety hazards are being identified and reported throughout the organization. Hazards are captured in a hazard register and assessed in a systematic and timely manner.
