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Commercial aviation safety / Clarence Rodrigues, Stephen K. Cusick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodrigues, Clarence C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aeronautics--United States--Safety measures.
- Aeronautics.
- Aeronautics, Commercial--United States--Safety measures.
- Aeronautics, Commercial.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 363 pages) : illustrations, figs., tables.
- Edition:
- 5th edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., c2012.
- Summary:
- "Presenting current practice and procedures from all major air traffic and regulatory agencies, this book covers the entire commercial aviation safety system--from human safety to accident investigation. Commercial aviation safety, fifth edition greatly expands the focus of the fourth edition to include the international and safety management systems (SMS) knowledge required by today?s aviation safety professional. Most aviation safety-related texts cover only issues related to the FAA and NTSB. However, as a practicing professional in the aviation field, one must also be knowledgeable about ICAO, SMS, OSHA, and EPA. This book delivers on this need. Offering a comprehensive analysis on the entire aviation safety system, this authoritative guide provides a broad understanding of aviation safety for students entering the field, and serves as a handy reference for the practicing aviation safety professional. Commercial aviation safety, fifth edition: now includes International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) regulations provides organization and rule-making process of all four relevant regulatory agencies in one place; contains expanded accident causation models Features new research on human factors in aviation safety offers new information on air traffic control and aircraft safety systems Includes updated airport and airline safety information; contains a new chapter on Safety Management Systems (SMS); provides knowledge on hot-button safety topics like runway incursions and security student learning features: chapter outlines with each major topic covered chapter objectives after the outline Heavily illustrated with tables, figures, and exhibits Key terms--each chapter ends with a listing of key terms used in the text review questions at the end of each chapter cover all the important points. A listing of suggested readings included after each chapter ".
- Contents:
- A. About the authors
- B. Preface
- Features of the new fifth edition
- C. Acknowledgments
- 1. The regulatory framework
- Learning objectives
- The international civil aviation organization (icao)
- The federal aviation administration (faa)
- The environmental protection agency (epa)
- Occupational safety and health administration (osha)
- Key terms
- Review questions
- References
- 2. Regulatory organization and rulemaking
- Icao organization and rulemaking
- Faa organization and rulemaking
- Osha organization structure and rulemaking
- Epa organization structure and rulemaking
- 3. The national transportation safety board
- International accident investigation
- National transportation safety board
- Accident investigation process
- Safety recommendations
- Ntsb accident databases
- Ntsb most wanted aviation safety improvements
- Ntsb seven most wanted list items (june 2011)
- 4. Recording and reporting of safety data
- Accidents
- Incidents
- Incident reporting systems
- Aviation recording and reporting systems
- General industry (osha) recording and reporting systems
- Environmental (epa) recording and reporting
- 5. Review of safety statistics
- Introduction
- Aviation accident statistics
- Occupational accident statistics?department of labor, bureau of labor statistics (bls) (www.bls.gov/iif/)
- 6. Accident causation models
- Reason's "swiss cheese" model
- The shell model
- The 5-m model
- Conclusion
- 7. Human factors in aviation safety
- Human factors
- The human factors analysis and classification system (hfacs) (www.hfacs.com)
- Management of human error
- Control strategies to manage threats and errors
- References.
- 8. Air traffic safety systems
- Basic components of the atc system
- Operational planning improvements
- The next generation air transportation system (nextgen) (www.faa.gov/)
- 9. Aircraft safety systems
- Jet engine development
- Long-range commercial jet transport era
- Safety design for atmospheric conditions
- Flight deck human
- machine interface
- Early cockpit development
- Flight procedures
- -takeoff, approach, and landing
- Modeling, design, and testing tools
- Future aircraft technologies
- Next generation flight operations
- 10. Airport safety
- Airport certification
- Operational safety
- Runway incursions
- Conclusions
- 11. Aviation security
- Review of attacks on civil aviation
- The regulatory movement
- Transportation security administration
- Role of intelligence
- Review of security technologies
- 12. Airline safety
- International development of airline sms
- The icao sms framework of safety components and program elements?the four pillars
- Development of airline sms in the united states
- Accident investigation and auditing
- Communications
- Training
- Role of alpa in airline safety
- Flight safety foundation
- Sms infrastructure at a major u.s. Airline
- 13. Aviation safety management systems
- The evolution of sms principles
- The fundamental components of sms?the four pillars
- Safety risk management explained
- Safety assurance explained
- The future of sms in aviation
- Notes:
- Rev. edition of: Commercial aviation safety / Alexander T. Wells. 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on Apr. 22, 2015.
- ISBN:
- 9780071763059
- 0071763058
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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