The aviation industry operates to the highest standards of safety, in the air and on the ground. The safety of everyone in our care is vital. We continually seek opportunities to improve our health and safety processes.

The issue
The management of health and safety is an issue which affects all businesses. At any airport, the potential hazards are extremely diverse with the size and complexity of the operators making airports challenging environments for health and safety management.

Our approach
Our airports are committed to being leaders in health, safety and environment (HSE) management and to providing HSE leadership in our organisation.

Our aim is to eliminate all preventable work-related illness, injury and business losses due to unplanned events on any of our airport campuses. We aim to be a best practice organisation in the HSE field, fully compliant with applicable international, national and local standards. We will strive to continually improve our HSE performance through:

Clear leadership Participation of all employees in HSE mattersEffective employee consultation and provision of information instruction and training on HSE mattersEnsuring that employees understand, follow and carry out their responsibilities as laid out in the Managing Responsibly System and PolicyAssessment and management of all HSE risk.

We aim to address the everyday risks with relatively low consequences (e.g. slips, trips and falls), less frequent risks with more severe consequences (e.g. construction accidents) and extremely rare, but potentially catastrophic, risks (e.g. aircraft accident and major fires). Our first priority is to prevent the risk occurring; however, in the event of a crisis situation, we must be prepared with effective contingencies.