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AIRPORT OPERATOR

Airport Emergency Response Planning

During the associated licensing etc. process, most candidate (civil /commercial) airport operators must adequately demonstrate (to the appropriate authority / authorities etc.) compliance with a large number of various requirements – including the capability to adequately plan for, respond to and deal with the most likely emergencies (man-made or natural) which can affect any such airport in general – and the candidate airport in particular

The types of airport emergency planning and response contingencies to be accounted for range e.g. from the catastrophic aircraft accident type scenario (full emergency) – to a public health crisis (pandemic, mass food poisoning etc.); to natural disasters such as earthquake, hurricane, typhoon etc. – to name just a few (also depending, of course, on the candidate  airport’s actual circumstances, including location etc.)

Airports do not typically respond to emergencies unilaterally i.e. airport operators MUST plan on using the appropriate, additional / available resources already ‘on-airport’ (e.g. airlines, ground handlers, airport based  police / security services etc.) together with (+) those found in the ‘community’ surrounding / near to the airport – (assuming such a surrounding community etc. is in place and is ‘adequate’ – which it might not be at some airports e.g. those considered to be remote – such as Easter Island)

Typical surrounding community resources can range from those provided by national and local governments (e.g. emergency services, hospitals, military etc.) – to those provided commercially, voluntarily etc. The standard and / or scope of same vary from ‘excellent’ to ‘very poor’ to ‘non-existent’. In some countries (most [but not all] typically classified by the United Nations as ‘developing’ or [separately] ‘least developed’) very little (if any) of such resources should be anticipated to be provided / available

How relevant airports put all of the above (and much more) together is typically put down / recorded in a document known (fairly) universally as the ‘(Name of airport) – Airport Emergency Plan – AEP‘

Solutions & Services

For now, might we suggest that you take a very quick look (and then please return to this webpage) at the 2 templates found at the end of the links shown just below?:

Airport Emergency Plan – Preparation Templates

AEP / Vol 1 – GENERAL INFO (Click HERE  to view this 100% FREE template)

Note: The public health (e.g. pandemic) incident response plan for airports is included in the above document. (See sub-section 4B)

AEP /  Vol 2B – CHECKLISTS (Click HERE to view this 100% FREE template)

May we also suggest that you consider taking a very quick look (and then please return here) at the other 2 templates found at the end of the links shown just below:

Business Continuity Plan – Preparation Templates

BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN (Click HERE to view Vol 1 of this 100% FREE template)

BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN (Click HERE to view Vol 2 of this 100% FREE template)

Re the above, those ‘very quick looks’ will have hopefully indicated that just about everything related to how to plan for, write, produce, implement, train, exercise, review, maintain and activate an AEP has been covered. What you will not be aware of yet is the absolute quality and extremely wide scope of the work

Our free AEP related documentation has taken some considerable time and effort to put together – and is continually reviewed (and updated, as required)

For source material, it has been based not only upon ICAO etc. requirements – but also on what selected ‘quality’ airports around the world have already actually achieved (i.e. for their own AEPs) by further expanding on such (ICAO etc.) requirements – mainly as a matter of ‘best practice’ in pursuit of excellence

The AERPS consultant has real-world practical experience of designing and developing AEPs – one of which was for an airport ranking (at the time) amongst the world’s top 5 busiest for international passenger traffic

That same absolute quality and extremely wide scope has also been applied to our free template Business Continuity Plan (BCP). Note, however, that the latter is aviation related in general (rather than airport related specifically). It is thus for the user to adapt (the latter) to his / her specific BCP purposes accordingly

Similarly to the AEP, the BCP template is continually reviewed and updated, as required

To engage our solutions and services re any issues regarding your Airport Emergency Plan – AEP (and / or BCP aspects of same) – do not hesitate to contact us. This includes requesting FREE Microsoft ‘WORD’ versions of any of our original documents, as required

Furthermore, the interested reader is referred to our separate webpage (also associated with the AEP) which can be found under our ‘FREE DOCUMENTS‘ drop-down menu (see top of this page, right hand side) with title ‘AIRPORT EMERGENCY PLAN – AEP‘

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AIRPORT OPERATOR

The generally understood meaning of the term ‘airport operator’ (as used in this website) covers similarly used terminology such as ‘airport authority’, ‘airport management company’ etc. – with the same general meaning

Whilst this assumption is valid at many / most airports around the world, it might be pedantically incorrect at others

For the latter, it is certain that ‘those that know / need to know’ will be well aware of the related terminologies in use

Consequently (and where necessary) they should easily be able to make the slight ‘interpretation’ adjustments in terminology (as used in this website) accordingly