Improving Cabin Safety – Uniting Air Travel

Cabin security adds to the prevention of mishaps and events, the protection of the aircraft’s occupants, through proactive safety management, consisting of danger identification and safety danger management

, and the increase of survivability in case of an emergency circumstance. With a total of 50 fatalities for arranged commercial operations transferring 4.1 billion guests, the year of 2017 had a worldwide casualty rate of 12.2 deaths per billion passengers.An evaluation of ICAO accident information from 2013-2017 involving industrial set up air transport indicated that there were average 2.6 accidents per million flight departures yearly. The reality that the majority of occupants make it through accidents can be connected to enhancements made in resident defense. These enhancements result from survival factor investigations, which attend to cabin safety aspects throughout mishap investigations. Over the previous thirty years, cabin safety improvements have actually consisted of the following A number of these significant enhancements go back to the 1980s, when mishaps were more frequent. As air travel’s security record has actually considerably improved because, the field of cabin security now concentrates on proactive initiatives to avoid accidents and possible deaths. In 2014, ICAO released a competency-based approach to cabin team safety training, to guarantee that cabin team members can best react to emergencies on board. In 2015, work was carried out to promote making use of child restraint systems for the safe travel of babies and kids and prevent injuries throughout flight.

The obstacles connected to cabin safety are continuously developing and require ongoing enhancements. The proliferation of Lithium batteries in numerous gadgets carried by guests and crew has actually caused a recent revision of cabin team firefighting procedures to alleviate the risk of inflight fires. The digitalisation of safety info is producing a move towards cabin-electronic flight bags (C-EFBs). Brand-new security dangers call for procedures and training to react to chemical, biological and radiological incidents, in addition to suspected cases of trafficking face to faces, for cabin crew members to identify and react to these situations adequately.

Emergency situation escape course marking on the cabin floor, which guides travelers to fire escape in the event of an accident, is one of numerous cabin security improvements over the past thirty years.

ICAO released the Manual on the Examination of Cabin Security Aspects in Accidents and Incidents (Doc 10062)to encourage the consistent application of the Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) included in Annex 13– Aircraft Mishap and Event Examination, especially in relation to survival elements. It offers information and assistance to States on the procedures, practices and strategies that can be utilized when examining cabin security aspects of an event. It is the first ICAO handbook dedicated entirely to cabin security in investigations.

About the Author

Martin Maurino is the Safety, Efficiency and Operations Officer at ICAO who heads the ICAO Cabin Security Program. Before signing up with ICAO, he held security analysis and safety management roles at Transportation Canada and the International Air Transportation Association (IATA). Martin started his profession in air travel as a cabin crew member at Air Canada.