A Protocol for Bird Strike Risk Assessment at Airports
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چکیده
In order for airports to manage the bird strike risk effectively, a risk assessment process needs to be carried out to identify the major hazards at the airport, the levels of risk that they produce, and the most cost effective means of reducing that risk. Despite the fact that bird controllers, managers and consultants make informal bird strike risk assessments throughout their working lives, there is no generally accepted methodology for assessing bird strike risk at airports. Other parts of the transport industry, indeed other parts of airport operations, are subject to detailed risk analysis, often with carefully calculated probabilities attached to each step of the process that leads to a particular adverse event occurring. The variability, and consequent unpredictability, of bird behaviour, combined with the lack of familiarity of the ornithologists involved in bird strike prevention consultancy with the formal risk assessment process, has led to bird strike prevention lagging behind other areas of airport safety in the development of risk assessment systems. The aim of this paper is to produce a basic protocol for the analysis of bird strike risk on airports. The intention is that the protocol should be generally applicable to all airports, and can be modified to suit the particular circumstances at different airports around the world. I do not suggest that this is the definitive answer to the problem of bird strike risk assessment, but, hopefully, it will stimulate further thought and development of better systems that will contribute to flight safety in the future.
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