System Safety Issues in Airplane Travel

The assignment content discusses a System Safety Issue in airplanes, highlighting problems such as overheated engines, malfunctioning wings, improper functioning of gauge and alert systems, lack of integration between systems, and the need for total system integration to improve safety policies and procedures. The failure of reporting by systems can have significant business and human impacts, including increased costs, lower employee morale, and decreased competitiveness.

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System safety show and the issues
There have been many plane crashes in the past. Recently too, USA has reported a number of
plane crashes. It is myth that travelling by air is never safe because technology and the systems
can make it possible make the air journey safe. Whenever any plane crashes, the National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) starts to investigate the reasons behind it. They also try to
improve the safety policies and procedures in the airplanes. According to the investigations of
this Board in the past, there is need for the total system integration in the airplane systems that
can help in dispersing the data sets in the air and these data sets can be correlated with the
support systems that are there on the ground like the traffic control data.
For this, the systems have to be set and upgraded so that all the activities happen on time and
with perfection. In this process, ‘safety’ of the systems is an important consideration that has to
be taken care of. It needs to be interpreted in underlined and bold terms. Firstly, the safety
implementation is an issue and then, its integration with other systems is an issue.
The system safety-related problems in airplanes
During the working of the systems, the following issues come up:
 In the airplane industry, the overheated engines and malfunctioning of the wings is a
common phenomenon and these things are bound to happen. This also leads to delay in
many flights. The airplane has simple devices or data systems fitted in it that can register
these faults and then technicians repair the parts based on the workflow software.
 But, due to improper working of the gauge and the alert systems, the system does not
report these issues. So, there cannot be tracked easily and this in-turn causes serious
problems.
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 Identification of the trained and qualified people is another issue because the data is
required to be handled which is very crucial for the airline companies.
 Then, for collecting the data, a proper system needs to be adopted which can help in
reporting and recording the incidents that are harmful for the systems or the company.
 There is also need for establishing a risk reporting system which is a cumbersome task as
the system has to be feasible (Ericson, 2015).
 Even if the systems work properly, they are not integrated. For example, some system
has detected a fault in the plane when it is flying and it alerts the pilots but, due to lack of
integration with the other systems, this data is not shown to those in the ground like the
traffic control department.
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The potential impact in business terms
In terms of business, the failure in reporting by the systems can hamper the day-to-day activities
of the airline business (Brameret, 2013). Firstly, it is a burden on the cost of the company. So,
the company will have to incur extra cost when the reporting by system fails. The competitors
will get a chance to get ahead in the competition and the market position of the business can be
destroyed too.
The potential impact in human terms
In terms of human resources, the failure can lead to lower morale of employees. This is because,
when the safety systems will not work in proper way, the employees may lose their important
data, they will have to work on it again (Hammerl, 2012). This will lead to extra efforts of
employees and they may also put in extra hours of work to rectify this situation. In addition to
this, the employees will not be able to see the future roadmap of the company so they will not get
the clarity on what they have to do next or how they have to proceed further for the development
of the company.
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Correction of the identified system safety problem(s)
It is very important to correct or rectify the issues that are identified above. Some
recommendations to correct them are as follows:
 Event processing software is required when the plane crashes occur. This is because an
integrated enterprise service bus can correlate many of the events that take place. Also, it
will take a shorter time to ensure that all the data systems are in sync.
 The integration of the total system should happen so that the data sets are not dispersed
and the reporting can be done in proper way.
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References:
Brameret, P. A., Roussel, J. M., & Rauzy, A. (2013). Preliminary system safety analysis with
limited markov chain generation. IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 46(22), 13-18.
Ericson, C. A. (2015). Hazard analysis techniques for system safety. John Wiley & Sons.
Hammerl, M., & Vanderhaegen, F. (2012). Human factors in the railway system safety
analysis process. Rail Human Factors Around the World: Impacts on and of People for
Successful Rail Operations, Taylor & Francis, 73-84.
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