How Important Is The Safety Training ?

By Author: Eesha Zaveri
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It’s hardly been a problem working with airside. They have been operating and regulating the safety protection plan for all those individual that are working on ramps, aprons, taxiway and runways. There are many unfortunate incidents that happen on the ground handling. That continuously rising problem worldwide they may lead to injury to personnel, the aircraft or the property. There may be major operational disruption cause by the misuse of the vehicles that are present on the airside or they be an over use of them due to the busy atmosphere on airside. There are always some ongoing strategy to improve the safety on the airside. Many companies are looking out for different types of strategy for the improvement and also keep minimum damage on the property available on the airside. There is always a group of people that is working on the development of the safety on the airport and airside.
The strategy can’t be the same it needs to be updated every now and then and also apply the schemes from airport operator association. There was a plan made by CAA for the ramp safety in year 2004. There were many changes made like ...
... bottom up and changed it to top down process in 2006. As they had identify the potential risk by available data. The important issue are rising frequently ie. medical standards and competency standards. These medical standards are somewhat self-explanatory, there should be some physical requirement. Secondly competency standards are known for multi choice question that is present at the end of the training course.
So to avoid the hazard that take place, there are these training programs that have made necessary by the GHOST team that was established the airside driver training. As there is lack of clarity by the government on the standard that should be applied by airside driving permit team. The records show that few accidents have taken place are the attributed to medical condition; that is cause by the lack of understanding or there is no acknowledgment by the environment they have been working. But the airport driver training team have made sure that they should follow the standard that have been applied. As the human factor is involved so they use all the standardisation or all the key factor that will help them to provide safety and avoid all kind error that can be made. There are radio transmitter install for them to avoid them to make error and avoid to have any property damage.
As the driving on airside is more prone to get into accident and also the root cause of such incident. It has to drive proximity close to aircraft and also care out many intensive activities so it needs airside safety training to the driver. They need to get experienced and competence gained through the training, they also require to have regular testing on the driving skills. Now there are new schemes that designed the vehicle that have reduce the risk and also they have reduced the vehicle on the runway. Those are permitted only when there is a need of them on the runway. The driver that are experienced and have proper training those driver our given excess to.