Safety

OPERATIONAL SAFETY

The term SAFETY refers to operational safety. While the complete elimination of accidents and serious incidents remains the ultimate desired goal, it is clear that one hundred percent safety cannot be achieved.

Aviation is a system that cannot be entirely free from hazards and related risks. It cannot be guaranteed that human activity and/or human-made systems will be free from operational errors and their consequences. Operational safety is therefore a dynamic characteristic of the civil aviation system, within which safety risks must be continuously mitigated.

Operational safety is a state in which the risk of injury or death to persons, or damage to or destruction of property, is eliminated and maintained at or below an acceptable level through a continuous process of identifying operational hazards and the risks arising from them, and managing those risks.

SAFETY, or operational safety, can be understood as a set of measures aimed at minimising the occurrence of human error. Human error may result from unintentional action due to lack of knowledge, which is the most common case, omission of work duties, missing, imperfect or incorrectly set operational procedures, technical failure or force majeure.

Safety Management System (SMS)

Airport operation is a complex activity consisting of many tasks and specialist areas. Ensuring operational safety at an acceptable level in such a diverse environment cannot be achieved by one person alone. A system is required — the Safety Management System.

The Safety Management System is a system for managing safety at the airport, including the organisational structure, defined responsibilities, procedures, processes and measures for implementing the airport operator’s safety policy. It enables safety at the airport and its safe use to be monitored and managed.

Safety Reporting

Safety reporting is one of the sources used by the Safety Management System to obtain operational information about identified non-conformities, errors, defects and similar issues. Its purpose is not to punish the person responsible, but to ensure that measures can be taken in time to prevent the situation from recurring.

Thank you for providing us with your observations in the form of a safety report. You may submit your report anonymously. However, if you provide your name and email address, we will send you feedback.