A Guidebook for Airport Winter Operations (2015) / Chapter Skim
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100 The unpredictability of winter events and their potential to impact airport operations will at times challenge even the best winter operations plans. As a result, recurring evaluation of the operational procedures, strategies, and tactics outlined within the plans will facilitate adapting to changing conditions and finding opportunities for improvement.
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Winter Operations Performance Evaluation 101 • Did the event exceed target winter-event threshold conditions? • Where can we improve?
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102 A Guidebook for Airport Winter Operations to impact the winter operations, and potentially drive investigation teams to cut short the investigation process. The overarching reason to investigate performance shortfalls is to seek out the root cause(s)
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Winter Operations Performance Evaluation 103 • Seek out potential hidden or latent contributing factors rather than focusing on just the most apparent factor(s)
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104 A Guidebook for Airport Winter Operations – Change in procedures, – Management of change, – Lack of training materials, and – Competing priorities. • Separate root causes from those secondary causal factors which, alone, would not have caused the shortfall.
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Winter Operations Performance Evaluation 105 • If the shortfall investigation reveals that the shortfall is not an isolated incident, or is systemic (i.e., department-wide) , identify preventive actions that will prevent the root cause(s)
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106 A Guidebook for Airport Winter Operations tactics. The reader is directed back to Chapters 8 through 11 for further consideration of alternative winter operations practices in use within the industry.
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