The following, based on work undertaken by the Eurocontrol Safety Team*, provides air navigation services providers (ANSPs) with guidance to facilitate efforts to return to normal operations following disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. In this respect, the document identifies potential hazards that may be encountered during the transition, for management of the associated risks, and is presented for consideration by States as part of their safety management system (SMS); Annex 19 – Safety Management and Safety Management Manual (SMM) (Doc 9859) refer.
Whilst some of the potential hazards will be specific to one particular operational environment, there will be hazards that could occur globally. Similarly, the potential hazards are not restricted to one particular local, national or regional level, or even within the boundaries of a single ATM system. The hazards are also not necessarily independent of each other. Some of the items in the list can be considered as "disruptors" that could affect higher-level operational hazards/ risk.
* The Eurocontrol Safety Team document "List of potential hazards associated to the recovery of normal operations following COVID-19 restrictions".
Click on the following hazard descriptions to see possible pandemic-related causal and contributory factors and examples of mitigations.
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