Bressaucourt airfield: safety process certified
The safety processes at Bressaucourt airfield meet the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) has issued the corresponding certificate to the operating company Sociéte Coopérative de l'Aérodrome du Jura (SCAJ).
The ICAO has defined the specifications for safety-relevant processes at airfields in its standards and recommendations. The requirements contained in Annex 14 define, among other things, how an airfield must organize the refueling of aircraft, the deployment of the fire department, the periodic condition check of runways and approach lighting, and snow removal. With these requirements, ICAO wants to ensure that the infrastructure at an airfield functions safely and smoothly at all times. The safety-relevant processes must be recorded in an airfield manual, which also forms the basis for a safety management system. Such a system describes how an organization identifies existing risks, evaluates them and reduces them with suitable measures.
The FOCA checks in an audit lasting several days whether the airports' processes and procedures comply with the specifications and are applied as described. After successful initial certification, the FOCA in Bressaucourt also conducts recertification audits every five years to determine whether the airports' safety-relevant processes still comply with ICAO specifications.
The Bressaucourt airfield is the twelfth airfield in Switzerland to be certified by the FOCA in accordance with ICAO requirements, following Geneva, Zurich, St. Gallen-Altenrhein, Bern, Sion, Lugano-Agno, Les Eplatures, Samedan, Birrfeld, Ecuvillens and Grenchen.
In a further step, the certification of the last Swiss regional airport of Lausanne is planned. The binational airport of Basel-Mulhouse will be certified by the French supervisory authorities, with the participation of the FOCA.
(Communication FOCA)
