Aviation Safety SMS221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Continental Express Flight 2574, Embraer Emb 120 Brasilia, Laredo International Airport

• School: Seneca College
• Department: Aviation Safety
• Course: Aviation Safety SMS221
• Professor: Andrej Zile

Document Summary

1- safety culture can be thought of as complimenting the documented procedures in a sms. 2- it needs to be established for a sms to be successful. History of safety culture: first used after chernobyl nuclear accident. 2- explosions blew off 1000 ton concrete cap sealing chernobyl 4 reactor. 6- contaminated 400 square miles around the plant in ukraine. 7- significantly increased risk of death due to cancer over wide area of scandinavia and. 8- poor safety culture identified as contributing factor. 9- concept introduced to explain how lack of knowledge and understanding of risk and safety by employees and organization contributed to the accident: ki(cid:374)g"s cross u(cid:374)dergrou(cid:374)d fire i(cid:374) lo(cid:374)do(cid:374) 1- no(cid:448)e(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) (cid:1005)(cid:1012), (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1011) fi(cid:396)e sta(cid:396)ted i(cid:374) es(cid:272)alato(cid:396) shaft. 2- pre wwii steps and sides made of wood. 4- suspect due to burning match being dropped down even though smoking banned. 5- fell into dirty running track covered in grease and garbage.