SAFETY IS KEY AROUND AIRCRAFT
Aircraft maintenance work includes inspection and repair of aircraft structures, coatings, and systems in hangars and on the air field. Good training and work practices ensure aircraft and worker safety. Various incidents and accidents occur each year between aircraft, vehicles and persons on many airports around the world, sometimes resulting in considerate damages to properties, personnel and sometimes even with fatal results. There are safety guidance contains safety guidance for towing and taxiing aircraft, aircraft jacking operations, aircraft cleaning and decontamination, aircraft tire mounting and servicing operations, flight line vehicle operations, and hot refueling. These safety practices and procedures in place to minimize injury to those who work around aircraft for examples:
All maintenance engine operation must be coordinated through the airfield control center. In case there is a incident with the aircraft, the airfield control center could notify the appropriate agencies and direct them to the aircraft parking location.
Personal Protection Equipment is a big part of safety practices and procedures. Individuals working around running aircraft must wear ear plugs, or defenders to protect their hearing. Also to be more visible to the pilots and other maintainers, one must wear a reflector vest or jacket. Furthermore, working around running aircraft one must be familiar with the hazardous areas, such as the engine intakes and exhaust. The aircraft and engine may vary; however in general at a minimum, one must stand 25 feet in front and 5 feet to the side of the intake of a running engine. Otherwise an individual or equipment can and will get ingested in to the engine and cause a lot of damage to the aircraft or engine and or, possibly kill someone. The exhaust is an hazardous place, this is way we are require to stay 200 feet away from a running engine. If not the individual(s) could get burns form the heat of the exhaust or blown over by the velocity of the exhaust.
Prior to performing any maintenance on an aircraft, the aircraft has to be safe to work on, prior to starting maintenance. This is call “Safe for maintenance”. Safe for maintenance is a check list to ensure the aircraft is safe. Safe for maintenance consist of, having a fire extinguisher near the aircraft, making sure the aircraft tires are chalked, the throttle and cock pit switches are in the right. Because if you put power onto an aircraft and it’s not safe, you may inadvertently start the motors; apply electric power to area of the aircraft where personnel are working at. In the case of the military, you may inadvertently launch a missile.
In Progress inspections (IPI): in the Air Force we have what you called the IPI’s. An IPI is an additional inspection or verification step at a critical point in the installation, assembly, or reassembly of a system, subsystem or component. This is one way of minimizing the human factor that is involved in aviation maintenance. Basically one maintainer would perform the work and a more experience maintainer would inspect the work prior to moving on to the next step or completing the task.
Many time maintainers questions safety practices and procedures, sometimes they fail to realize a incident took place and this is why we have safety practices and procedures.
All maintenance engine operation must be coordinated through the airfield control center. In case there is a incident with the aircraft, the airfield control center could notify the appropriate agencies and direct them to the aircraft parking location.
Personal Protection Equipment is a big part of safety practices and procedures. Individuals working around running aircraft must wear ear plugs, or defenders to protect their hearing. Also to be more visible to the pilots and other maintainers, one must wear a reflector vest or jacket. Furthermore, working around running aircraft one must be familiar with the hazardous areas, such as the engine intakes and exhaust. The aircraft and engine may vary; however in general at a minimum, one must stand 25 feet in front and 5 feet to the side of the intake of a running engine. Otherwise an individual or equipment can and will get ingested in to the engine and cause a lot of damage to the aircraft or engine and or, possibly kill someone. The exhaust is an hazardous place, this is way we are require to stay 200 feet away from a running engine. If not the individual(s) could get burns form the heat of the exhaust or blown over by the velocity of the exhaust.
Prior to performing any maintenance on an aircraft, the aircraft has to be safe to work on, prior to starting maintenance. This is call “Safe for maintenance”. Safe for maintenance is a check list to ensure the aircraft is safe. Safe for maintenance consist of, having a fire extinguisher near the aircraft, making sure the aircraft tires are chalked, the throttle and cock pit switches are in the right. Because if you put power onto an aircraft and it’s not safe, you may inadvertently start the motors; apply electric power to area of the aircraft where personnel are working at. In the case of the military, you may inadvertently launch a missile.
In Progress inspections (IPI): in the Air Force we have what you called the IPI’s. An IPI is an additional inspection or verification step at a critical point in the installation, assembly, or reassembly of a system, subsystem or component. This is one way of minimizing the human factor that is involved in aviation maintenance. Basically one maintainer would perform the work and a more experience maintainer would inspect the work prior to moving on to the next step or completing the task.
Many time maintainers questions safety practices and procedures, sometimes they fail to realize a incident took place and this is why we have safety practices and procedures.
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