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... 5 Objective This synthesis examines current practices for defining, collecting, aggregating, analyzing, protecting, and reporting airport organizational incident information. However, there is not universal agreement as to what constitutes an incident.
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... 6 Airport Incident Reporting Practices • Identify incident data that can be used as benchmark measures for assessing overall airport performance, risk, and safety analysis. • Identify leading/lagging indicators and metrics used by airports.
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... Introduction 7 organization can rest on how well an airport can track, manage, understand, and use information provided by an incident reporting system. Steps taken by organizations to ensure safety often begin with the desire to prevent accidents and incidents from occurring.
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... 8 Airport Incident Reporting Practices Voluntary Reporting It is the intentional seeking, or the voluntary acquisition of, precursor incident data that can prove most useful in preventing future accidents or in predicting future direction and risks. Every day at airports, incidents occur that narrowly avoid becoming accidents or causing serious injury, or that indicate the airport may be drifting from its stated goals.
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... Introduction 9 methods, roles, and functions for the purpose of controlling hazards and risks. Incident reporting is a fundamental component of an SMS.
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... 10 Airport Incident Reporting Practices The other is to organise broader investigation and improvement activities to understand and address those risks. These active processes of investigation, inquiry and improvement underpin learning.
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... Introduction 11 5. Internal and external compliance auditors.
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... 12 Airport Incident Reporting Practices Information Services, and other academic and professional databases. Search terms used included incident reporting, leading and lagging indicators, metrics, safety and key performance indicators, near miss, enterprise risk management, dashboard, scorecard, organizational culture, and safety management system.

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