The aviation industry is experiencing rapid change and facing significant challenges. Traffic is growing, straining the infrastructure and raising environmental concerns. Competition is fierce, creating pressures to reduce cost. DNV assists aviation clients in achieving sustainable growth and development through managing risk, facilitating improvements in capacity and developing organisational structures.

Purpose

DNV delivers a range of services assisting our clients in the aviation industry. Our services include:

• risk assessment and mitigation
• human factors analysis
• safety culture assessment and development
• safety, health, environment and quality mangament systems development and certification
• risk communication
• stakeholder consultation
• software certification
• safety assessment planning
• emergency/contingency planning

Benefits

• safe increase in airport and airspace capacity
• safe reduction of cost during major organisational change
• compliance with emerging ICAO and EUROCONTROL requirements
• state of the art risk management and communication
• identification and management of major risk drivers
• stakeholder involvement
• optimum use of new technologies

Features

Our clients include international and regional airports where we have helped:

• prepare a risk management and communication strategy
• provide assistance with airside safety management and third party risk assessment
• support clients through public inquiries concerning additional runways and terminals
• assess quality and environmental compliance
• assess and develop safety culture
• develop risk based security management programmes
• simulate and enhance passenger flow through security checkpoints
• simulate and model wake vortex risk in order to increase capacity by adjusting separation crieria on parallell approaches

In the field of air traffic management (ATM) we have worked with regional bodies and national service providers to:

• carry out ESARR-4 compliant safety assessment of new or changed systems
• analyse the risk of airspace reclassification changes
• develop approach for improved integration of human factors into projects
• investigate safety implications of downsizing and organisational changes
• develop and help implement safety management systems

Our work for airlines and maintenance, repair and overhaul organisations (MROs) has covered safety, environment and quality, including

• general safety training, cockpit resouce management training and training on risk assessment
• greenhouse gas emission verification
• assistance in achieving ISO 9001