Contemporary Challenges in Aviation Industry Essay

Aviation and Security: Management Perspective

The globalization has made the world a smaller place with information transcending the hitherto boundaries that stopped free flow of information as well as increased travel across the world. The increased traveling due to availability of the means of travel heaped a lot of pressure on the aviation industry, especially the management to ensure that security is maintained and the commuting through the various airports and through the airspaces is seamless, safe and uninterrupted, providing convenience to passengers and goods alike. The management levels at the airports hence have a heavy task of ensuring the free flow of traffic and the following is an extrapolation of how the management can and have contributed to aviation security in general.

The management must describe and make the staff members understand the four pillars of safety within the aviation industry. Once the staff members understand these four pillars, it will then be easy to implement them and enhance security accordingly. The management needs to have policies, procedures and organizational structures that will help in accomplishing their goals inline with the safety of their areas of jurisdiction. The policies need to be well explained to the employees and well understood for effective implantation. The policies that the oversight bodies put in place ensure that there is uniformity and harmony in operations across the industry, in effect avoiding uncertainties when it comes to what measures need to be taken to ensure safety and the management needs to help in actualizing these policies. The managers also need to adopt the Safety Risk Management (SRM) approach in the contemporary aviation industry. There needs to be a system of hazard identification and controlling the risk to acceptable levels. The managers also need have safety assurance which is a follow-up measure to the SRMs, otherwise referred to as mitigations, which once they are established and operational, the safety assurance need to be upheld by management to ensure that the controls continue to be effective in a changing environment. Safety assurance is one important pillar that ensures safety management is not a one off event but a continuous event and practice that acts as a prevention of any possible dangers and also the necessary improvements baring in mind the constantly changing security aspects and global environment. The other significant pillar that management have to ensure is implanted is safety promotion which the managers need to uphold as a core value with efforts that support the safety culture (ICAO, 2009). The management needs to have safety as part of the culture of the organization. The constant reminding of the staff and clients of the significance of the safety within the airport is very central to constantly ensuring that each individual is safe and no relapses hence making a significant pillar to safety management. It is incumbent on the management to ensure that there is…