Ramp Safety Practices (2011) / Chapter Skim
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INDUSTRY SUGGESTIONS In a 2004 report on the Safety of Airport Operations, Reducing Accidents and Improving Safety on the Ramp by the AOSP, the panel provided a set of recommendations to enhance safety on the ramp. The panel was comprised of industry representatives to "raise industry awareness on the current state of airport operations safety" (AOSP 2004)
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If irregular activity is noticed, it is communicated and dealt with on the spot. Industry Suggestions According to ACI's 2007 survey of members regarding improvements to ramp safety, the addition of safety meetings was listed a number of times as a potential safety program enhancement.
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GAO report on ramp safety, the GAO is recommending that the FAA take several measures to enhance runway and ramp safety including "improving data collection on runway overruns and ramp accidents" and that "a lack of complete accident data and standards for ground handling hinders the effort to understand the nature, extent, and cost of accidents and to improve safety" (Dillingham 2007)
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Airport comments included an increase in ramp safety inspections and a non hub airport reported that "Our self inspection program includes operations personnel monitoring the condition of the airfield (including the ramp area) at least once daily.
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