Auditing & Assessment

Stevenson Airside Solutions Ltd. can provide expertise to carry out audit services at your airport in a variety of functional areas including airside operations and rescue & firefighting services. These audits can be tailored to be an oversight or to be thematic (for example if your airport has a rising trend of Road Traffic Collisions airside). We can additionally carry out pre-regulatory audits to ensure your airport is prepared for a key stakeholder’s audit. For further information please contact us.

Stevenson Airside Solutions Ltd. can assess your airport against UK Civil Aviation Authority, ICAO and EASA standards as required.

We have a small but highly experienced team of consultants and associate consultants whose experience spans many years and functions. Dependent on our client’s requirements, we can tailor our services to deliver: advice, action plans and written reports to support capital planning, regulatory audit responses or audits for internal purposes.

Within our consultancy service we can provide support and advice in a variety of areas. Examples of these are:

	Assessment of aerodromes/airports for Annex14 and CAP168 compliance and suitability for specified operations
	Assessing and providing reports and plans for operators of unlicensed sites, including military, ex-military and private aerodromes, seeking to upgrade to licensed status
	Advice and support to Local Government Authorities, operators and construction companies on development on and in the vicinity of airports including the provision of Bird Hazard Control Plans as requested by airport operators
	Assessment and advice on the international compliance status of airports for sale or privatisation
	Assessment of Crisis Management/Emergency Response including safety procedures
	Assessment of contracting-out services; analysis and placement
	Development of safety oversight & frameworks
	Organisational structures for airside & airport operations

Stevenson Airside Solutions Ltd. can also support on other areas such as development of capacity, airside projects, safeguarding and planning. For further information please contact us.

Airside Operations is recognised as a highly technical function within any airport. With this in mind, training and development is a key area not to be overlooked. The team at Stevenson Airside Solutions Ltd. can design and deliver bespoke training courses to airports based on our proven modules.

We can provide full training across all CAP700 competences, or alternately deliver specific areas of training more relevant to your site.

Whether the training be in bird hazard risk management, the wide ranging regulatory frameworks or the day-to-day business of marshalling aircraft, we can ensure your team is equipped with the right skills to deliver. All of our courses can be tailored to your needs, with venues to suit and prices you’ll recognise as value for money.

We can also work with clients on mentoring and development programmes for those who are new to the function but join at a more senior level, please contact us to discuss this matter in confidence.

Examples of training we can deliver:

	Airside Safety
	Marshalling
	Apron & Airfield Inspections
	Environmental Aspects of airside operations
	The Regulatory Framework
	Bird Hazard Risk Management
	Emergency Management for Airside Operations

Bird Hazard Management

Bird hazard management is one of the most critical factors affecting both the safety and thus the viability of any aerodrome. The reputational damage as well as the financial implications of a single birdstrike can run into millions of pounds, even when the aircraft is only damaged. In 2009 there were 1,823 reported birdstrikes in the UK (Source CAA) and in the US around 8,000 birdstrikes were reported in 2008 (Source FAA). At the start of the millennium bird strikes were estimated to cost the aviation industry US$1.2 billion. 

The UK Civil Aviation Authority state on their website “Birdstrikes are a cause of damage to aircraft and have the potential to cause an accident. The risk of a birdstrike can however be minimised through the application of appropriate and effective bird control measures adopted by aerodrome operators, working in conjunction with other organisations and specialists.”

An effective Bird Control Management Plan (BCMP), including the measures necessary to assess the birdstrike risk at the aerodrome and the identification of appropriate action to minimise that risk, should be an integral part of that aerodrome’s safety management culture and its Safety Management System (SMS).”

Airlines and regulators look to the Accountable Manager for answers to some key questions: records, training and resourcing. It is vital that the Accountable Manager has the right answers to those questions.

Added to the regulatory burden is the true cost of bird risk hazard management: 

	Wages and associated costs for staff on dispersal duties
	Training, salary or overtime for staff on that training
	Licences for staff
	Procurement of weapons and ammunition
	Licences for weapons and ammunition
	Maintenance of weapons
	Procurement of vehicles
	Maintenance of vehicles
	Fuel for vehicles
	IT costs for record keeping and analysis
	Management time for collating, analysing and carrying out actions from that data

Stevenson Airside Solutions Ltd. can assist by delivering a class-leading service by experienced, highly trained and motivated operational practitioners. Utilising the latest techniques and supported by the best equipment, our team of highly trained and motivated staff are some of the most experienced in bird hazard management.

Whether it is a bird hazard site assessment, interim support or fully managed on-airport hazard management, please contact Stevenson Airside Solutions Ltd. to be your partner of choice.

As far as birds are concerned, an airfield is just one more field. You may think that they are scattered around the landscape haphazardly but this is not the case, some types of airfields are more attractive to birds than others. Different species are attracted to different habitats on and around airfields. Stevenson Airside Solutions Ltd. is now able to supply habitat management services airside to support bird hazard risk management, please contact us to discuss.

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