Environmental Sustainable Work Practices for Aircraft Maintenance Organizations

Environmental sustainable work practices

Environmental sustainable work practice refers to the rates of continuous resource harvesting,
pollution creation and consumption of non-renewable resource which can be continued in
future. It is a state in which people will be able to fulfil their demand without hampering the
environmental recourses. We can also say that sustainable work practice help to reduce
wastage of recourses as well. The main policy is to give importance for protecting the
environment and should try to reduce the environmental impact of work practices that carried
out by the organisation itself & here the organization is an aircraft maintenance organization.
It is necessary to manage natural resources and ecosystems along with meeting people’s basic
requirements and other environmental, social and economic needs (Sharholy et. al, 2008).
Due to increasing climatic change, water scarcity and dispute over access to resources,
environmental sustainability is needed very much. The procedure of environmental
sustainable work practices includes reduction of waste by choosing eco friendly products for
aircraft maintenance organization that have minimal packaging and can also increased
productively and recyclable, use that type of goods which minimize waste production, re-use
of products & raw materials, reduce the volume of the harmful component by waste treatment
and dispose of the waste safely (Guerrero et. al, 2013).
Strategies that have been implemented by Manager and Supervisor of aircraft
maintenance organization
 Development of environmental protection knowledge to aware employees about
environmental responsibilities.
 Environment protecting issues should be considered at the time of making plans and
designs.
 Improvement of environmental condition by identifying and addressing
environmental risk.
 Considering new strategies in order to reduce waste & manage the resources such as
energy management, conservative use of materials and waste management etc. in a
proper manner.
Management of waste -
Waste management is the process of treating solid wastes which offers variety of solutions
for recycling items related to aircraft maintenance operations. We know about how garbage
can be used as valuable resources by the process of recycling. Leaning of Waste management

treatment is necessary for each & every organization in the world. In this waste management
process, disposal of the products and substances that already have been used number of times.
Waste can be solid, liquid, or gas and each have different methods of disposal in order to
manage. Waste management is important to reduce adverse effects of waste on health,
environment, and aesthetics. Waste management treatment is not always uniform in all
countries, regions, and sectors. A large portion of waste management practices deal
with mainly aircraft maintenance operation solid waste which is generated at the time of
operations. There are different methods of this kind of waste deposal.
Landfill- It is the most popular method of waste disposal. Landfill mainly found in
developing countries. The waste generated from aircraft maintenance organization which are
not suitable for recycling or incineration, are used for the landfill purpose.
Incineration – Another way of waste disposal is incineration. In this method municipality
solid wastes are burned at high temperatures to convert them into residue and gaseous
products. The advantage of this type of method is that it can reduce the volume of solid waste
20-30% of the original volume. The process is also known as thermal treatment.
Recovery and Recycling - This process of converting waste products into new products help
to prevent energy usage and consumption of fresh raw materials as well.
Centralized waste management – This procedure is considered one of the tidy procedure
which able to provide better options for the classification of the waste. It is also favourable in
terms of economic scale as well.