Contents

• Executive Summary 1
• Introduction 2
• Safety Management System 2
• Background Planning 2
• Need of an Airport Emergency Plan 3
• Airport Emergency Plan and Change Management: A Literature Review 3
• Potential Threats 5
• Purpose of Airport Emergency Plan 6
• Important of Airport Emergency Plan 6
• Advantages of an Airport Emergency Plan 7
• Disadvantages of Airport Emergency Plan 8
• Well-Designed Emergency Plan 8
• Airport Emergency Planning Sequence 9
• Basic Plan 10
• Functional Areas 10
• Hazard-Specific Areas 11
• SOPs 11
• International Civil Aviation Organization 11
• ICAO as Regulator 12
• Inconsistencies 12
• How to deal with such inconsistencies 13
• Personnel Requirements 13
• Communication System 13
• Equipment of Emergency Control Centre 14
• Location of Emergency Control Centre 14
• Cooperation with outside agencies 15
• Conclusion 16
• References 17

Description

This report is based on the following requirement -
One essential Safety Management System (SMS) element of any airport licence approval is a well-designed Emergency Plan, the recommended primary components of which are outlined clearly by ICAO and implemented by the national aviation authority.
You are an airport SMS manager and your emergency management arrangements need to encompass the needs of the regulator and those of state emergency services.
You are required to submit an individual report in respect of the background planning i.e. before you compile the very complicated details of the plan, assess the various stages that you will go through in order to ensure that you follow best practice and in your analysis consider any obvious inconsistencies that may need to be addressed. Consider how you might treat different situations, the type of personnel that you might need, the arrangements in respect of communications and alerting, the location and equipping of your emergency control centre, your co-operation and liaison with outside agencies and the various elements that you might consider prior to testing the final Emergency Plan. 
There is no objection to the use of graphics, illustrations, annexes or appendices. 
Please note that you are not required to compile an actual Airport Emergency Plan but you may refer to an existing one to which you have access or of which you are aware.