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Volume 04 I Issue 01 I April 2014

Safety Journal

Quarterly Journal of Operations Safety I Emergency & Business Continuity Management I ARFF

Bulletin 2

Mark Your Calendar 2

BCAW 3

Safety Learning’s 4

Do You Know 4

InterAct 4

Industry Scoop 4

Good Shows 5

Aviation Dictionary 5

Trendsetter 5

Do Not Forget 5

In order to improve Safety, techniques have moved beyond the analysis of isolated accidents to data-driven analyses of trends throughout the industry. This approach is supported by IATA’s Global Aviation Data Management (GADM) program. GADM is a master database that supports a proactive data-driven approach for advanced trend analysis and predictive risk mitigation. With application of GADM, the Safety Depart-ment would be able to provide comprehensive, cross-database predictive analysis to identify emerging trends and flag risks to be mitigated through safety programs.

Proposed new Safety Strategy

Following the recommendations made in IATA Safety Report of 2013, BIAL Safety is working on development of new Safety Strategies for 2014. This will ensure continua-tion of our ongoing efforts to regularly review strategic priorities to ensure they are still fresh and relevant to the aviation industry. The previous safety programs have made very significant improvements to operational safety to reflect the current opera-tional environment and to provide a framework for proactive initiatives to mitigate the main causes of aviation accidents and incidents.

The key pillars of the proposed Safety Strategy are a holistic approach in identifying organizational and operational safety issues. They are:

Regulatory harmonization.

Training.

Awareness.

Improved technology.

BIAL Safety will work closely with industry stakeholders to ensure each of these pillars is leveraged to address each of these safety strategies, namely:

Derive key factors for consistent improvement of SMS.

Workout effective training for all relevant stakeholders.

Identify and address emerging safety issues across the Globe.

Further reduce operational risk.

Enhance quality and compliance.

Strive for improved aviation infrastructure.

This edition of Safety Journal showcases the efforts of BIAL Safety to enhance Opera-tional Safety and in turn achieve higher efficiency. The highlights of these efforts are introduction of ‘Safety interface week’ with each Airline, Specific trainings, awareness programs, focused exercises, drills, and fire prevention efforts. This edition also recog-nizes individuals & teams those set high standards of Safety and prevented major acci-dents in form of ‘Good Shows’.

This quarter is likely to witness pre – monsoon and monsoon. All are required to get geared to handle the hazards posed during this period. Let’s be prepared, let’s be resil-ient and let’s be safe.

‘Safety First’ and ‘Safety Always’.

Write an essay on “What happened to MH 370 ?. There is no limitation on the length of the article. The first 2 best articles will be recognized suitably Your suggestions are welcome to improve the emergency preparedness at BIAL. If you want to highlight safety and emergency preparedness related activity within your department/airport, kindly provide the relevant article and photo-graphs to BCM Coordinator.

bcmcoordinator@bialairport.com

Fire Prevention Week 14-21 April 2014

The Fire Prevention Week is observed nationwide in remem-

brance of the lives lost in the devastating fire and explosion

which occurred on 14th April, 1944 at the Victoria Dock, Bombay

Port. The objective is that all precautions should be taken to en-

sure that fires do not take place so that life and property are pro-

tected by enhancing awareness on fire safety and mobilizing ac-

tion amongst employees, their families and public.

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ISO 22301 Lead Auditor Program

A team of 6 personnel involved in BCMS activities from various

divisions recently participated in ISO 22301 Lead Auditor pro-

gram facilitated by Continuity and Resilience. The week long pro-

gram focused on requirements for auditing business continuity

programs and covered the essential elements of the following

standards; ISO 22301, ISO 22313, ISO 19011, ISO 17022. The

trained personnel will augment and strengthen BIAL internal

audit process .

Terminal Evacuation Drill

The first evacuation drill for the T1A West was conducted on

14th Jan 2014 with participation of a cross section of the emer-

gency management stakeholders (>200 personnel) with the

prime objective to familiarize all occupants with evacuation pro-

cess, procedures and systems. As a result of the evacuation drill

several recommendations were given to the project execution

team for incorporating in T1A to meet the regulatory require-

ments and improve the overall fire-life-safety arrangements.

Safety Interface Week

In an entirely new global initiative, BIAL Operations Safety has

started a focused & dedicated dialogue in form of ‘Safety Inter-

face Week’. ‘Safety Interface Week’ (two hours each day Mon-

Fri) is being conducted with each Airline/GHA from January 2014

onwards. This aims to address all issues pertaining to Safety,

ARFF, Airside Ops, Emergency Management, security, corporate

Communication, AOCC etc. The concept is well received with

encouraging participation. This is helping both BIAL and Airlines

in streamlining their operations, addressing the gaps and achiev-

ing the better standards of Safety. Until now, total of 10 Airlines

have completed Safety Interface Week.

108 Ambulance Service at Airport

With the recent increase in number of vehicular accidents on the

landside, BIAL had tied up with GVK EMRI 108 to provide ambu-

lance Services at the airport. To begin with one RMRI-108 am-

bulances has been positioned during the peak hours (0000-0600)

hrs. Going forward based on the usage of the ambulance ser-

vices , the ambulance may be positioned permanently at airport

to cater specially the needs of landside incidents.

ISO 22301 LA program participants

Participants during the evacuation drill

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BUSINESS CONTINUITY AWARENESS WEEK (BCAW) is

the global educational event for people to learn more on

Business Continuity Management and how they will ben-

efit from its application. This year BIAL also started to

observe BCAW with several activities (refer table below).

Event Description

Tabletop Exercise: Disabled Aircraft Recovery Operations

Tabletop Exercise led by GGI involving all critical stakeholders on disabled aircraft recovery operations

Quick Reference Card s Distribution of Quick Reference Card among BCM Personnel

BCMS Internal Audits 1st BCMS Internal Audit for 2014

BCM Survey 1st Survey to benchmark the current level of BCMS awareness

BCM Core Group Meetings Coordination meeting with critical process owners on current state of BCMS and Way for-ward

Damage Assessment Team Meetings Reconstitution of Damage Assessment Team and amendment of Damage Assessment Checklist

Field Exercise: Mobile Command Post (Disabled Aircraft Recovery Operations)

Field Exercise involving all stakeholders involved in MCP setup and operations in case of a disabled aircraft recovery operations

Stakeholder workshop & Brainstorming session Stakeholder workshop with participation of Aviation Concessionaires and Airlines on BCM way forward at BIAL, and an exclusive brainstorming session on MH370 incident

QRC distribution

Disabled aircraft recovery operations tabletop exercise in progress Dark site coordination meeting

MCP field exercise for disabled aircraft recovery operations

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Air hostess falls from aircraft hit by catering truck

A stewardess preparing for departure, was standing in the galley

near the open exit door at the nose of the aircraft when the ca-

tering truck hit it. She fell off and was injured . The strike was so

strong that the aircraft turned by around three meters. There

was a gap between the aircraft and the tele-trap and unfortu-

nately she fell through it.

Pushback Tractor hits Jet aircraft

A pushback tractor was in the process of connecting to an MD-

80. The operator lost control and hit the nose of the aircraft.

Investigations revealed that Human factors (Fatigue & lack of

situational awareness) were the primary factors leading to this

incident.

Lesson to Learn

Aircraft doors should be opened only after attaching step-ladder or access equipment…!

Lessons to Learn

Human factors should be given due importance while planning

any operations.

Think you know it all about Business Continuity Man-

agement System? Try completing the CROSSWORD with termi-

nologies and acronyms frequently used in BCMS

Refer Page 5 for the INTERACT Solution

Interesting Facts about BCM

ICAO SMS website

In anticipation of the significant growth of global air transport

over the coming decades, the International Civil Aviation Organi-

zation (ICAO) has announced launch of a new website support-

ing improved aviation safety Worldwide. The new ICAO Safety

Management site will assist State Regulators in the implementa-

tion of Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) of

ICAO’s new Annex 19 to the Convention on International Civil

Aviation (Chicago Convention). Aviation safety is today as good

as it has ever been, however, with the projected doubling of air

traffic by 2030, it became imperative that ICAO adopt a compre-

hensive safety management framework to maintain and im-

prove upon our sector’s remarkable safety performance. The

website drives emphasis on promoting the safety management

approach through the network of Regional Aviation Safety

Groups around the World. Additional information can be found

at: www.icao.int/safetymanagement.

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Raghu TS, Apron Controller

On 22.2.2014, at 2310 Hrs., ATC gave taxi

instructions to arrival of AI-609 to stand

19 via D-L3. At the same time, S2 4234

from stand 17 was also cleared for push

back onto taxi lane L3, thereby creating a

conflict. Mr. Raghu TS in the Follow-Me alerted ATC of this con-

flict and advised to hold AI 609. ATC acknowledged this alert by

the FM and advised AI 609 to hold position on L3 abeam Stand

12 to facilitate the safe pushback of S2 4234 as it has already

crossed the stand safety line. The timely action by Raghu in iden-

tifying the conflict and intervention to hold the aircraft and tak-

ing necessary corrective action is appreciated.

Team Effort

On 28.02.2014 , between 0030-

0230 Hrs, there was a major fuel

spill on Apron at four locations

from the hydrant pits. All the

teams (Airside, E&M, Av Safety,

ARFF and IOSTL) immediately swung into action to prevent any

untoward incident and took measures to ensure safety without

impacting operations. The coordinated effort of all teams in-

volved is praise worthy.

Satish Kumar IOSTL

Mr. Satish Kumar of IOSTL was returning after a refueling pro-

cess. He observed sparks under the driver’s cabin of his dis-

penser and immediately stopped the vehicle, applied extin-

guisher and alerted all concerned. If the fire was not observed &

attended on time, it would have led to a major accident.

Help us to make Kempegowda International Airport safer. If you

notice anything unsafe which may lead to an Accident/ Incident,

inform BIAL Aviation Safety on +919538897777 or send an

email to dsa@bialairport.com. Of course, your identity will be

kept confidential.

Incase of any real time incident/accident, immediately inform

AOCC at 9538882222 I 08066782222 and Operations Safety at

9538897777

Solution to the BCMS Crossword

Accrete /ə|_kri_t/ verb to increase in amount by slow external addition, to accumulate _ ice accretes on the rotor ice builds up on the rotor. Buffeting /_b_f(ə)t ŋ/ noun an irregular shaking of a part or the whole of an aircraft during light, usually caused by strong winds. Chandelle /ə_n|_del/ noun a steep climbing turn in which an air-

craft almost stalls as it uses momentum to increase its rate of

climb.

Green Data Centre BIAL recently

upgraded its

datacenter

incorporating

the industry

wide best

practices for

the safety and security. The most unique feature of the new dat-

acenter is low energy consumption and modular approach. Typi-

cally datacenters have area based cooling which results in high

energy consumption however the new datacenter adopts modu-

lar cooling approach wherein rack based cooling is achieved

through liquid cooling package reducing the energy consump-

tion drastically. Also, the fire suppression system is rack based

protecting the equipment’s in contrast to conventional fire sup-

pression system based on volume resulting in huge energy and

investment costs on gas and pipes.