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by
Tony M. Jackson
Built-in
loss prevention strategies and technology reviews that
delivers ROI
"Proactive
Technology Planning for the
Unanticipated Growth Curve"
While
airports cannot plan for every event
that influences successful airport ground
operations, implementing proactive incident prevention practices is
important when growth is expected to increase the potential for ground
incursions. Facilitating consistent awareness in safety guidelines,
assures that core ground safety deliveries are achieved cost
effectively, sustains ROI on technology objectives, and simply save
lives.
Here are some immediate business benefits
and cost savings to plan for growth while sustaining ground safety
technologies at optimum levels:
Maximum
protection for a
comprehensive loss prevention program and meeting ROI objectives: What
the Technology Plan Should Accomplish
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Protection of the airport's most valued
assets (ground personnel, vendors, contractors, flight &
maintenance crews, and support equipment);
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Provide greater "security" through
awareness of higher visibility safety solutions;
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Significantly reduce injuries and/or
deaths while employees perform on the job;
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Protection of property assets from
"damage" due to employee negligence;
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Protection from liability damages,
lawsuits, and carelessness of employees;
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Reduction or elimination of insurance
claims and worker's compensation claims;
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Proactive and preventative measures to
secure dangerous high incident environments on the grounds;
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Potential reduction in insurance and
business liability cost.
Airport
administrators continue to evaluate
the Total Cost of Ownership for FAA technology deployments, and
influence on safer ground operations. Arriving at the conclusion that
the rate-of-return justifies the investment in complex technologies
requires steadfast prevention planning in a proactive manner while
comparatively deploying higher visibility low-tech alternatives.
If
airport administrators are spending 90%
of their time "going after an increase in funding to secure complex
technologies," considering effective safety low cost alternatives could
validate the desired return-on-investment. The events of 9/11 and
subsequent changes in safety/security tactics created a "severe thorn"
in the side of many airport administrators as well as created
devastating losses for airlines.
Planning
to succeed in all areas of airport
administration is worth the time, effort, and investment in loss
prevention planning, implementation, and technologies to secure airport
ground operations costs effectively--is an excellent start.
Ground
Incursion Technology Reviews:
"Technology Applications for Ground
Incursion Avoidance...trust, but verify"
Most
airport administrators rely heavily on
technology recommendations from the FAA. While uniformity in
operational guidelines has its benefits and make it easier to identify
FAA compliance practices of airports, this is the traditional
"top-down" approach to administration. The FAA consistently evaluates
and test complex technology systems for ground incursion avoidance. Do
you remember the famous statement by our great renowned late President
Ronald Reagan, when he said, "Trust, but verify," relating to the Cold
War, and more specifically, Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev and
Soviet intentions.
Airport
ground incursions are occurring at
alarming rates annually, no single technology could possibly prevent
all potential ground occurrences. Deploying low cost safety
alternatives will assist airport management with modular
(plug-the-gaps) approach to safe operations by evaluating each
component of "incursion prevention technologies." So trust the FAA, but
verify recommendations will in fact, provide the desired results.
Ultimately, as administrators, complex technology reviews are time
consuming, requires advanced skills in engineering design and
expertise, interpreting results, as well as contingency plans if the
system ever fails, etc. Now, we all agree that something has to be done
to address the many ground incursions that place lives and assets in
harms way.
A Due Diligence Approach:
However,
performing due diligence to ensure
that such a system will perform as planned, should yield one important
fact; complex systems will only perform as designed and in many
instances, is limited in scope and application to fully prevent every
ground incursion possibility.
Any
technology plan that does not positively
influence growth, profits, and operational stability, is a fertile
attempt at long-term prosperity. Progressive planning goes hand-in-hand
with loss prevention strategies and serves as a business agent for
continuous ground safety improvements.
Proactive
loss prevention planning should be
the dominant force in any ground operations plan. Always striving to
reduce costs without scarifying critical elements of operations that
reduce stagnant safety measures, unfavorable returns on technology
investments, and a reduction for the potential of ground incursions are
essential priorities of administrators.
About
the Author
About
the author: Tony M Jackson,
Chairman/CEO of Globalnologies Corporation, expert on "loss prevention"
strategies and tactical airport grounds safety deployments in the
incident management industry. Mr. Jackson holds a BS in Electronic
Engineering Technology and MBA in Technology Management. To Learn More,
contact Mr. Jackson through the company website: www.globalnologies.com
or Email: tonyj@globalnologies.com
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