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Sooner or Later!........... Foreign Object Debris - Becomes - Foreign Object Damage!

FOD-prevention programs can minimize FOD and its effects. According to experience, a program to control airport FOD is most effective when it addresses four main areas:

1/ Training
2/ Inspection by the airline, airport, and airplane handling agency personnel
3/ Maintenance
4/ Co-operation and co-ordination.

Within the Aviation Safety Management System it is necessary to develop effective methods of both Top Down & Bottom up Communication.

How to measure the current status of the communication effectiveness?

Consider a Communication Audit!

A communication audit is a thorough evaluation of the organization’s ability to deliver information to every level with the organisation.

Essential the communication audit looks at both the internal mechanisms as well as the external communications for example:

a) With Contract Organizations – Data Exchange Methods!
b) With Sub Contract Service Providers (Direct Oversight)
c) Delivering information to the Front Line
d) Dealing with the challenge of the Iceberg or Ignorance