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Maintain and implement airport/airfield emergency procedures

URN: PPLAOG04

Business Sectors (Suites): Aviation Operations on the Ground

Developed by: People 1st

Approved on: 2021

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Overview

This standard is about maintaining organisational and airport/airfield emergency systems, procedures and practices, and implementing organisational and airport/airfield emergency procedures in response to initial alarm. This involves providing information about your organisation's and the airport/airfield’s emergency systems, procedures and practices and co-ordinating emergency exercises. This also involves co-ordinating and controlling organisational and airport/airfield emergency procedures in response to an on-going emergency, whilst undertaking your normal duties as far as practical to do so until normal operations are restored.

This standard is for those working in airports/airfields in senior management positions.

When you have completed this standard, you will be able to demonstrate your knowledge of and ability to:

• Maintain and implement airport/airfield emergency procedure

Performance criteria

You must be able to:

1. Monitor and review the aviation emergency systems, procedures and practices in use in line with organisational and airport/airfield procedures and relevant legal requirements 2. Take the required action where monitoring and reviews reveal matters/issues in organisational and airport/airfield emergency systems, procedures and practices 3. Maintain organisational and airport/airfield emergency systems, procedures and practices 4. Confirm that team members understand and follow organisational and airport/airfield emergency systems, procedures and practices 5. Co-ordinate organisational and airport/airfield emergency exercises according to the organisation’s and airport/airfield’s procedures and relevant legal requirements 6. Analyse the results from organisational and airport/airfield emergency exercises to inform future practices 7. Confirm that all staff in your area of responsibility have received the required training in organisational and airport/airfield emergency procedures 8. Implement organisational and airport/airfield emergency procedures in response to the initial alarm being raised 9. Raise and respond to the emergency alarm in line with organisational and airport/airfield emergency procedures and relevant legal requirements 10. Establish the nature, extent and the phase of the emergency according to organisational and airport/airfield procedures and relevant legal requirements 11. Provide information about the emergency to all necessary parties according to organisational and airport/airfield procedures 12. Report air incidents in line with organisational and airport/airfield emergency procedures and relevant legal requirements 13. Set up an emergency control centre as required according to organisational and airport/airfield procedures 14. Co-ordinate and control organisational and airport/airfield emergency procedures in response to an ongoing emergency 15. Monitor the nature, extent, classification and phase of the emergency in line with organisational and airport/airfield procedures 16. Maintain the systems, procedures and practices for responding to the emergency in line with organisational and airport/airfield procedures 17. Complete the required documentation relating to the emergency according to organisational and airport/airfield procedures and relevant legal requirements 18. Maintain essential non-emergency duties and operations where practical throughout the emergency 19. Inform your team when the emergency is over and return to normal operations according to your own level of responsibility in line with organisational and airport/airfield procedures

Knowledge and Understanding

You need to know and understand:

1. Your organisation’s and airport/airfield’s emergency systems, procedures and practices and how to maintain them 2. The relevant legal, requirements and organisational and airport/airfield requirements in relation to developing, disseminating and updating emergency procedures 3. The types of airport/airfield emergencies that can occur and how to respond to them 4. The relevant legal, organisational and airport/airfield requirements in relation to emergency exercises 5. How to analyse and use the results from organisational and airport/airfield emergency exercises to inform future practices 6. Your staff’s training requirements in relation to their work roles, emergency responsibilities and level authority including emergency systems, procedures and practices 7. Your organisation’s and airport/airfield’s procedures for monitoring, inspecting and reviewing emergency systems, procedures and practices 8. How to implement organisational and airport/airfield emergency procedures in response to the initial alarm 9. The organisation’s and airport/airfield’s emergency procedures manual 10. Your organisation's and the airport/airfield’s procedures for raising and responding to emergency alarms 11. How to establish the nature, extent and the phase of the emergency 12. When, how and to whom to provide information about the emergency, and the types of information which must be kept restricted and confidential in relation to airport/airfield emergencies 13. Your organisation's and the airport/airfield’s procedures for reporting and recording emergencies 14. Your organisation’s and the airport/airfield’s procedures for setting up an emergency control centre 15. How to co-ordinate and control organisational and airport/airfield emergency procedures in response to an on-going emergency 16. How to report air incidents in line with organisational and airport/airfield emergency procedures and relevant legal requirements 17. Your organisation’s airport/airfield procedures and relevant legal requirements for completing documentation relating to the emergency 18. The importance of maintaining essential non-emergency duties and operations throughout the emergency 19. When and how to inform your team that the emergency is over and return to normal operations

Scope/range

Emergency phases:

a) Uncertainty

b) Alert

c) Distress

Necessary parties include:

a) Colleagues

b) Other airport/airfield departments

c) Contractors

d) Airlines

e) Customers

f) Passengers

g) Visitors

h) Emergency services

Emergency classifications:

a) Local Standby

b) Full Emergency

c) Aircraft Accident

Threat categories:

a) red

b) amber

c) green

The range of airport emergencies and procedures includes:

a) Flight emergencies

b) Vehicle accident

c) Fire

d) Major fuel/chemical spill

e) Hi-jack

f) Terrorist threat

g) Explosion

h) Medical emergency

Scope Performance

Scope Knowledge

Values

Behaviours

Skills

Glossary

EPIC

Emergency Procedures Information Centre

Links To Other NOS

External Links

Version Number

Indicative Review Date

2026

Validity

Current

Status

Original

Originating Organisation

GoSkills

Original URN

GSKAOG04

Relevant Occupations

Transport Drivers and Operatives, Transport Operations and Maintenance

SOC Code

8233

Keywords

emergency, airport, airfield, emergency exercises, alarm