ABSTRACT
This article deals with the identification and evaluation of safety hazards with the highlight of the aprons operations. Paper deals with aircraft ground handling, characterizes major categories of ground handling services. Every airport operates under different conditions. These differences are reflected in various sets of identified hazards and risk tolerability assessment. Thus the importance of detailed analysis of possible hazards and their probability and severity is the core of this paper. Standard methodology for hazard identification in aviation industry is described. The theoretic interpretation is supported by a practical example. Further recommendations are being made as how to handle the data obtained from the analysis to maximize the effect and outcome. Deming’s PDCA of continuous quality improvement represents, besides other things, improvement of an aircraft fueling process and the use of FRAM and STAMP models of safety will be recommended.
