Where Birds Don't Fly

It is more popular to be a victim of circumstances that accept responsibilities for aerodrome operators. It is an aerodrome operator’s responsibility, no matter how small or large, to keep deer away from their own airfield. Aerodromes are under Federal Jurisdiction, and it is not Provincial responsibilities to provide wildlife management to aerodromes. An aerodrome association picked a dividing path when expecting wildlife management from a Province. Their article referenced below make statements that aerodromes are victims of their Province. Aerodrome operators should accept their responsibilities and design, develop, and implement their own Wildlife Planning and Management Plan. A regulatory requirement for aerodrome operators is that “no person shall allow a bird or other animal that is owned by the person or that is in the person’s custody or control to be unrestrained within the boundaries of an aerodrome.” When a deer is on an airfield, it is in the custody and control of that ae...

Power of silence yield more power than words and is a tools for a successful management in airport or airline operations. Silence is not to remain silent without communication, silence is not to manipulate another person’s opinion by silence, but it is to know when silence is a necessary tool to communicate safety critical information. Silence is natures tool to rejuvenate the mind. Without silence there could be a safety overload among all personnel, including the accountable executive (AE). Safety overload, or information overload is a hazard in itself. When information is processed from an overload of new data, there is a gap of associate new and unknown data collected to known and comprehended data, and different paths may overlap or shadow the other.  Comprehension of systems, process and work practices is to turn data into information, information is then turned into knowledge and knowledge is turned into comprehension. This is a time-consuming process, and needs to be recycl...

If two safety managers independently of each other conducted a root cause analysis of the same occurrence, there would most likely be two different root cause statements.  One method used to arrive at a coherent root cause statement is to assign the root cause to the pilot in command. When multiple root cause analyses are conducted by different persons or organizations of identical hazards, or incidents, a root cause that is allocated, or assigned, to a person is a predetermined root cause. Justification for assigning a root cause to a vehicle operator, a pilot, or maintenance person is often that they failed to follow standard operating procedures (SOP). Standard operating procedures are tasks required to be completed by a person, and when items on the SOP are missed by a person, the root cause is assigned to that single missed item. When a root cause analysis leads to a reference document, other factors are excluded with no other options available. A reliable root cause analysis ...