Strategies that help to maintain safety in aviation industry
New safety-enhancing technology and methods have been developed through research, development, and collaboration. These developed sophisticated technologies have helped to improve aviation safety and provide distinct safety advantages. Although in some situations, this method comes with their own disadvantages, but we will be discussing strategies and their usefulness to safety in the aviation industry.
From a proactive and very fast perspective, the best strategy for aviation safety is prevention, which can be achieved through various means. One of these is the identification of any hazards before they become risks, and the finest tool for this is reporting.
1. Identification of Hazards
Initiating safety procedure and methods that identify hazards is very important when aviation safety is being discussed. The need for pre-planned safety is very important as aviation accident is usually highly destructive if caution is not taken at the peak period.
2. Risk Management
Every form of safety involves having the ability to manage every risk associated with such departments. Although aviation safety is likely to be more demanding as it can be tedious and requires a straight-forward and immediate method of managing whatever risk maybe encountered at any point in time. Improved safety is also a reflection of risk management. The risk management is identifying the problems before they become a significant issue.
Why aviation safety is very important in the safety industry
3. Hazard Reporting
Every department of safety comes across hazards in everyday life all the time. It may be riding without a helmet, driving without seat belts, a damaged handrail at home, or deviating from checklists and SOPs at work. Timely reporting of these deviations can break the chain and save serious injury or loss of life.
Each one of us needs to be compliant, vigilant, and sincere in our commitment not to overlook even the smallest hazard that we may come across.
4. Safety Improvement
Aviation safety is continuously improving. This is made possible by sharing the knowledge of manufacturers, operators, and regulators.
Aviation safety has improved by the collaborative approach of the organizations that are involved in designing and production of aircraft and its equipment, oversight of regulatory requirements, operation of aircraft, Air Traffic Control, and infrastructure of the airport.
5. Aircraft design consideration
Safety is the primary consideration while designing an aircraft. Every aircraft system vital to the safe operation of an airplane has a backup and more than one backup in some cases. For example, an airplane equipped with a twin-engine is designed to safely take off, fly, and land even if one engine fails.
The extra margin of protection is also considered while designing an airplane to allow the pilot to safely exceed the limit in case of an extraordinary emergency situation.
Airplanes are rigorously tested by manufacturers in order to ensure they meet or exceed design standards and certification requirements.
Apart from airplane equipment and technology, manufacturers study and apply human factors to the design of commercial airplanes.
