Long Operations’ Risk Assessment of an Airline Company

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Henrique João Martins
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.6/11939
• topic: Acmi Operations; Aviation Legislation; Human Factors; Long-Term Operations; Operations Based In Outstations; Risk Management; Safety; Safety Management System; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Aeronáutica

Since the beginning of aviation industry, commercial aviation is being facing an exponential growth due to the huge demand in passenger and cargo transport. This overdevelopment was only possible thanks to the continuous improvements of safety levels all over the decades. In this context, considering all advantages of an integrated Safety Management System along with the irregularity, in operational terms, of the airline operator euroAtlantic Airways (EAA) in this work is developed a study of feasibility of the current model for assessing operational risks of this company for its long-term operations. This dissertation consists in an implementation study of a long-term operations’ safety risk assessment matrix. With this purpose, all operational areas of this airline company are essential in the first phase of this project for identification of each sector’s hazards and respective mitigation measures. All listed hazards and consequent risks are then classified into likelihood and severity and encompassed in a risk assessment matrix. In a final stage, the matrix is uploaded in company’s integrated Safety Management System in order to guarantee its feasibility. Three of the most demanding long-term operations of the last two years were then used as examples to analyse matrix’s viability for future operations’ assessment. Finally, improvements for the company current risk assessment system are proposed in order to guarantee a better comprehension and analysis of future long-term operations risks and associated mitigations.