Posts about stuff relating to airports
Opening Up: What Surprises Lurk within your Aerodrome?
Depending on the nature of the COVID-19 outbreak in your area, aerodrome operations may have ground to a halt, barely hiccuped or maybe even increased. For those in the first category, that have struggled through intermittent and/or prolonged lockdowns, the end could be insight. But getting going again could be fraught with insidious risks.
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ASW #5: Some Friday Funnies
It’s Friday, it’s Friday! The theme for day 5 is “Wellbeing”. The old Oxford Dictionary defines that as “the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy” and today, I’m going to try to help out with that last one with some funny aviation-themed videos from YouTube.
ASW #4: (More than) A Couple of Words on Safety Management Systems (TBT)
Here we are on day 4 of Airport Safety Week and it’s a Thursday, so I am going to cheat a little here and do a massive Throwback Thursday post covering some of my favourite Safety Management System (SMS) related posts.
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ASW #3: Accident Review: FOD Brings Down the Concorde
The third day of Airport Safety Week sees one of the annual event’s most enduring activities - the FOD walk. As I am not currently working on an airport or in Australia, I am going to miss taking part this year. Instead, I thought I would offer an analysis of the 2000 Concorde disaster as it would have to be the most significant FOD-related accident in history.
The following analysis is very limited. I just want to focus on the presence of the FOD on the runway, its immediate impact on the aircraft and factors associated with FOD detection and prevention.
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ASW #2: The Evolution of Human Factors (Infographic)
The theme for the second day of Airport Safety Week 2020, is “human factors in airport safety”. Now this is a really, really big topic and one that I love. I have studied human factors through two degrees, multiple short courses and a ton of personal research.
But instead of going full nerd, I have decided to take a different approach and create something of an infographic on the topic of the evolution of human factors. Check it out inside here.
ASW #1: COVID-19 & Safety: A Bow-Tie Risk Assessment Approach
Today’s theme is “maintaining airport safety through COVID-19”. Obviously, this can be a big topic. There are thousands of ways COVID-19 has impacted our daily lives - some large and some subtle. So, in thinking about this topic, I wanted to create a structure we could use to analyse the virus’s impact.
And I landed on the Bow-Tie model. Check it out.
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Airport Safety Week is almost here...
It is nearly Airport Safety Week again! This year, it will, no doubt, feel different and for me, I am feeling particularly distant. But to help me celebrate the week and bring me a little closer to “home”, I am committing myself to writing a post a day with each one on the daily theme.