Cover Story
New Directions in Airport Safety:
Clarifying SMS, SRM and the Safety Case
By Dave Fleet, Dave Fleet Consulting; Joanne Landry, Landry
Consulting; Deirdre Cowden-Templeton, Cowden-Templeton Consulting (CTC);
and Kevin Vandeberg, Barge, Waggoner, Summer & Cannon, Inc.
Airport consultants have likely heard about the FAA-driven safety
initiatives that are beginning to impact airport clients: Safety
Management Systems (SMS), Safety Risk Management (SRM) and Safety Cases.
These are exciting efforts but, as with any significant change, their
implementation has generated confusion. Over the past year, there have
been many questions from airport consultants and operators about these
programs. What do SMS, SRM and Safety Cases require of airports? How to
they differ? What is their impact to airport operators both now and in
the future? Read more…
Special Feature
NextGen for Airports: The Far-Term Perspective
By Diana Khera, Director Airport and Airpspace Planning, Harris
Miller Miller & Hanson Inc.
Many of the near-term applications and plans under the
Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) NextGen initiative are
widely understood within the aviation industry. The implementation of
new Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) routes and procedures will lead
to enhancements in the use of airspace, resulting in increased safety,
efficiency and environmental benefits. The latest version of FAA’s
NextGen Implementation Plan will provide additional detail and clarity
on these near-term applications. But what about longer-term NextGen
initiatives and what will they mean for airport facilities? Full story…
Consultants Perspective
Closing the Communication Gap: The Right People, Using the
Right Words at the Right Time
By Michael Kenney and Paul Sanford, KB Environmental
Sciences
George Bernard Shaw, the 19th Century Nobel
Prize and Oscar-winning journalist, playwright and social commentator
often remarked that “The problem with communication…is the
illusion that it has been accomplished.” Even the most
knowledgeable, experienced and articulate among us can fail to
communicate important information to the very audiences that have the
greatest need to know and understand it. Unfortunately, this disconnect,
or “gap” between the messenger and recipient makes it
increasingly difficult to communicate with the public on environmental
impacts of airport operations, especially when talking about risks to
human health. Recognizing these different languages of risk
communication makes it easier to define this challenge and construct a
remedy. Read more…
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