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Prototypical Business Aviation Safety Program Manual
The word safety refers to the management of risk with the goal of eliminating, reducing, and/or mitigating injury and loss as a result of accidents and incidents. NBAA’s vision statement begins with an unqualified commitment to enhance the safety of business aviation. Safety is fundamental to business aviation’s role within the nation’s transportation system. It is also a key expectation of those who we personally transport. Our community must not only be safe, it also must have the perception of safety.
The following concepts and actions are elements of safety culture that can be found in many organizations:
- Unqualified commitment to safety as a behavioral pattern and pervasive way of life by top management.
- Unambiguous expectations by each level of management as well as each peer group that, for all employees, safe life patterns and work habits are as normal as breathing and must be practiced off the job as well as on the job.
- Availability of quality, standardized equipment with which to accomplish the assigned tasks.
- Clear, easily understood operating procedures, followed without deviation.
- Inclusive system of communications for collecting, analyzing, and exchanging incident data related to safety.
- Non-retribution for submission of incident data.
- Retraining without penalty or stigma when safety is involved.
- System for tracking incident and accident data, analysis of trends, and feedback of results.
- Peer acceptance that accidents are preventable, regardless of operations.
- Peer acceptance that safety is a matter of lifestyle - a matter of culture.
In order to assist the membership in developing or refining a formal safety program, the NBAA Safety Committee has compiled this Prototypical Business Aviation Safety Manual. The motivation for this project was to ensure NBAA Member Companies a means of addressing risk within their organizations. The NBAA Safety Committee has identified both flight and ground safety programs that may be necessary to reduce risk in any business aviation organization. These programs are prototypes only and should not be construed as recommended policy. Each organization should tailor their own safety program to its own specific needs.
Follow the links below to download a specific program element.
- General Safety Policy
- 47 KB Microsoft Word File
76 KB Adobe PDF File
- Safety Committee
- 36 KB Microsoft Word File
56 KB Adobe PDF File
- Standard Operating Procedures - Fixed Wing
- 150 KB Microsoft Word File
196 KB Adobe PDF File
- Standard Operating Procedures - Rotary Wing
- 150 KB Microsoft Word File
189 KB Adobe PDF File
- Flight Deck Automation
- Refer to NBAA Alert Bulletin 99-1 Attachment: Prototypical Crew Guidance for Advanced Cockpit Aircraft
- Training
- 150 KB Microsoft Word File
145 KB Adobe PDF File
- Hazard and Incident Reporting and Investigation
- 80 KB Microsoft Word File
130 KB Adobe PDF File
- Accident Preparedness Plan
- 319 KB Microsoft Word File
253 KB Adobe PDF File
- Facility Emergency Plan
- 102 KB Microsoft Word File
145 KB Adobe PDF File
- Compliance Assessment
- 450 KB Microsoft Word File
180 KB Adobe PDF File
- OSHA Recording and Reporting
- 35 KB Microsoft Word File
72 KB Adobe PDF File
- Hazard Communication
- 43 KB Microsoft Word File
64 KB Adobe PDF File
- Hazardous Waste
- 111 KB Microsoft Word File
155 KB Adobe PDF File
- Regulated Wastes
- 29 KB Microsoft Word File
70 KB Adobe PDF File
- Personal Protective Equipment
- 108 KB Microsoft Word File
150 KB Adobe PDF File
- Respiratory Protection
- 56 KB Microsoft Word File
153 KB Adobe PDF File
- Hearing Conservation
- 32 KB Microsoft Word File
66 KB Adobe PDF File
- Fall Protection
- 33 KB Microsoft Word File
74 KB Adobe PDF File
- Powered Industrial Vehicles (Tugs, Scissorlifts, Forklifts)
- 48 KB Microsoft Word File
114 KB Adobe PDF File
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- 33 KB Microsoft Word File
74 KB Adobe PDF File
- Employee Exposure and Medical Records
- 61 KB Microsoft Word File
101 KB Adobe PDF File
- Contractor Safety
- 48 KB Microsoft Word File
108 KB Adobe PDF File
- OSHA Compliance Inspections
- 72 KB Microsoft Word File
123 KB Adobe PDF File
- OSHA Compliance Checklist Added May 2003
- 174 KB Microsoft Word File
48 KB Adobe PDF File
