Aviation Safety, Security and Emergency Planning Research 2022

Running head: AVIATION SAFETY, SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PLANNING
Aviation Safety, Security and Emergency Planning
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AVIATION SAFETY, SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PLANNING
Q 1. Aviation Security
Aviation security is made up of all the safety measures and regulations implemented in
airports to ensure the aircraft, airport staff, and passengers are safe from all accidents, threats,
and other criminal activities. Aviation sector takes care of all the Security system audits, cargo
certification handlers, Security approvals, Security Programme management, and surveillance
and monitoring of security-related programs (Lykou, Anagnostopoulou, & Gritzalis, 2018). The
aviation sector is useful at the entry point of goods and people to the country and from the
country hence has a big role in the political and economic importance of any given country.
Therefore, security is a major concern in the aviation industry to minimize all sorts of accidents
from taking place. Among are threats involved with the aviation sector; terrorism, accidents,
drug trafficking, and any other type of crime. Historically, the aviation industry has been a target
to terrorists for such a long while making it a major threat to the aviation industry (Lykou et al.,
2018). Aviation security can be approached at a personal level and an organizations level as
below.
Q 1a. Personal Approach
Airport passenger's trust is increased via security checks. However, security checks cause
high rates of negative emotions throughout the whole passenger's journey. On the other hand,
passengers prefer to bare the stress during the checkups rather than fly without security measures
being efficiently carried out. According to studies, passengers are willing to pay extra and to bear
the increased inconveniences to feel secure. Security checks are very influential when it comes to
customer satisfaction, together with terminal facilities. Satisfaction brings in value for the airport
hence a competitive advantage to the airports (Kolesár, Melníková, Heralová, & Daňko, 2016).
The passengers weigh their satisfaction based on;

AVIATION SAFETY, SECURITY AND EMERGENCY PLANNING
a) The time is taken for security check.
b) The professionalism of the security staff.
c) Confidence during the security check processes.
Q 1b. Organizational Approach
Security systems were implemented in the 1970s after registration of so many cases of
commercial aircraft hijackings. There are metal detectors used for checking and scanning of
luggage and passengers, verification of identification documents just to enhance good security
and to reduce insecurity (Kolesár et al., 2016). The security team in airports should be paid very
well just to motivate them to perform well in their respective areas. They should be well trained
as their area calls for a lot of attention hence being able to smuggle hidden bombs and weapons
by terrorists. It is also advisable to subject the security personnel to background checks often just
to make sure there are no staffs assisting terrorists in harming the passengers (Diao & Zhang,
2017).
The hijacking of TWA Flight 847 that happened a while back was successful via the help
of the staff; the staff helped the terrorists hide weapons in the washroom that were used to carry
out their attack. The candidates for security jobs in the airports should be chosen with
consideration of their ability to handle such jobs, for instance, they should be equipped with
cognitive abilities, abstract reasoning ability together with alertness ability (Arcúrio, Nakamura,
& Armborst, 2018).
Q 2a. Consequences of using Aviation Security Devices
The passenger screening devices use radiation, electric and magnetic field levels, which
may be a threat to the passenger's health. The health effects include cancer, reproductive, and