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Small Business. OSHA.
- Voluntary
Protection Programs (VPP). OSHA. VPP participants are a select group of
facilities that have designed and implemented outstanding health and safety
programs.
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A Guide to Packing for Business and Personal
Travel. OSHA-Airlines Industry and National Safety Council's
International Air Transport Section Alliance. Also available as a 303 KB
PDF,
2 pages..
- Environmental Screening Checklist and
Workbook for Airports and Tenant Operations. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (2000, July), 760
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PDF,
117 pages. Includes self-evaluation tools
such as environmental screening checklists and workbooks
which can be used by industry or government officials
to screen or evaluate their compliance with EPA regulations.
Helps those in the air transport industry evaluate compliance of either specific activities
or areas in the facility or the entire facility.
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Health and Safety in Air Transport. Health and Safety Executive (HSE),
(2007, March 28). Deals with a variety of airline issues. Check
"Live Issues", "Program of Work", and "From
Experience" sections of this page for the best information.
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Airport Safety. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),
(2007, March 9). Provides
guidance on airport operations and safety practices; maintaining airport
master records (the 5010 program) in the Airport Safety Data Program;
promoting emergency operations, vulnerability reduction, and damage control
at civil airports; planning for emergency management of civil airports;
and directing Federal activities and their restoration after attack or
natural disaster.
- Aviation.
National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Contains a list of documents and articles about aviation
safety.
- Accident
Database and Synopses. Contains National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) information from 1962 and later about
civil aviation accidents and selected incidents within the
United States, its territories and possessions, and in international
waters.
- Unchanging Values - A Commitment to A Better
Tomorrow.
Airports Council International - North America (ACI - NA), (2002), 560 KB PDF,
20 pages. Reports on the work of member airports and the ACI-NA organization
toward advancing the vision of all airports across North America.
- Rosekind, M. R., et al. Fatigue
Factors in Regional Airline Operations. (1994,
June). Presented at the meeting
of the public forum on commuter airline safety, Atlanta, Georgia.
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How
Baggage Handling Works. How Stuff Works. Provides a basic explanation of
baggage movement in an airport and other general information on baggage and
freight movement.
- US
Department of Transportation (DOT). The DOT oversees
the formulation of national transportation policy and promotes
intermodal transportation.
- Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA oversees
the safety of civil aviation. It also regulates a program
to protect the security of civil aviation, and enforces
regulations under the Hazardous Materials Transportation
Act for shipments by air.
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Safety. The Office of System
Safety. Develops and implements improved tools
and processes, to facilitate more effective
use of safety data, both inside and outside
the agency, and to help improve aviation safety.
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Safety Has Improved for US Airlines. Air
Transport Association (ATA). Links to latest testimony and statistics
presented by ATA, the trade organization of principal US airlines.
From 2002 through 2004, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
reported that US airlines carried nearly 1.9 billion passengers and
recorded just 34 fatalities, and only three
fatal accident in 31 million scheduled departures.
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