Basic aviation risk management can be performed even in the most challenging conditions, as shown by United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) aviation operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Flight Safety Foundation Board of Governors member Cameron Ross reported back to the Foundation after reviewing the operations.
Ross, who was named in August as the Foundation’s representative to the WFP Aviation Safety Board, is also the manager of aviation safety for BHP Billiton.
He said that his three-week review, which ended in June, examined risk-based aviation safety assurance programs used by the WFP; he also conducted aviation risk-management workshops for WFP aviation personnel.
The WFP’s programs are “very robust and focused on a series of risk evaluations by the WFP aviation safety unit of the aircraft operator and aircraft,” Ross said.
The risk evaluations also include regulatory oversight by the state,…
