BTEC Level 2 Certificate in Aviation Operations on the Ground (Knowledge)

Unit 1: Health and Safety within Aviation

Learning Aim 1: Know how to prevent and minimise risks and hazards airside

Assignment task 1: Health and Safety in the Aviation Industry

Scenario: You work for Swissport a major international handling company. You are required to produce a health
and safety manual (use pictures and diagrams to support your work) which can be used to educate new recruits
during their training programme to indicate the importance of health and safety within the aviation industry.

Assessment Criteria

Criteria

Assessment

1.1

Identify different types of airside Identify at least FIVE different types

hazards
of airside hazard, ONE for each of
the types listed below.

1.2

Identify different types of airside

risks

1.3

Identify differing types of aircraft

hazards

1.4

Identify different types of aircraft Identify at least SEVEN different

risks
types of aircraft risk, ONE for each
type listed below.

Identify at least EIGHT different types

of airside risk, ONE for each of
types listed below.
Identify at least SEVEN different
types of aircraft hazard, ONE for
each of the types listed below.

1.5

Describe how risks from airside

and aircraft hazards can be
prevented or minimised

Your description should over at least

FIVE of the eight types listed below.
Your answer should be supported by
industry examples.

1.6

Describe airside surface

markings

Your description can be short

although supported with pictures or
diagrams.

1.7

Describe the correct procedures

for reporting safety breaches

You should be able to differentiate

between a range of situations. E.g.
spoken word for immediate attention.

1.8

Identify the correct persons to

report to when a breach of safety
has been identified

ATC for flight safety concerns and

Airport Authority for airfield safety or
security issues.

Assessment content to include:

Airside:

hazards (noise, fumes, vehicles, bags, cargo); risks (staff, passengers, slip, trip, manual handling,
collision, crushing)

Aircraft:

hazards (jet engines, propellers, flaps, air stairs, doors, taxiing, push-back); risks (staff,
passengers, ingestion, blast, foreign object debris (FOD), collision)

Prevention and minimisation of risks and hazards:

initial training;
refresher training; assessment; licensing; inspections by eg company, Airport Authority, regulatory body (DFT); risk
assessment; reporting; supervision

Airside surface marking: apron; taxiway; runway; roads; painted signs; lights; pedestrian
walkways

Reporting safety breaches: person to report to (company supervisor, airport authority,

air traffic control (ATC), aircraft engineer); reporting procedures (written report, photograph, follow-up, learning
from potential accidents); safety breach situations eg immediate attention, routine situations, urgent situations,

Hand out date: 22nd October 2015

Hand in date: 5th November 2015