Creating Operational Risk Assessments
Air Maestro’s operational risk assessment function allows organisations to create online risk assessment forms, which calculate the risk for the applicable activity. The operational risk assessments can then be used before each flight/mission/activity to determine the risk associated with conducting the task and consequently whether it is advisable to continue the task.
The process for creating an operational risk assessment requires three steps:
Step-by-step guide
Step 1: Create a Risk Assessment Type
You can create multiple risk assessment types (for each department, task etc) based on your company requirements. Each risk assessment type can evaluate a unique set of criteria, pertaining to the task/function.
Select Setup > Select Operational Risk Assessment Setup under Operations. The Risk Assessments tab is displayed.
Click [+ Add New].
The Risk Assessment tab displays a new row:Complete the applicable fields.
Click [
]. The new risk assessment is added to the tab strip.
Step 2: Create a Checklist
A checklist is a set of one or more evaluations assessed within the operational risk assessment. All checklist items must be grouped under a header. For this reason, a header must be created before any checklist item. The text in the header should reflect the checklist items that will exist below it.
For example, the header ‘Weather Forecast’ would be appropriate for a group of checklist items used to evaluate the expected weather conditions for the flight.
In the example below, the text ‘Weather Forecast’ is a header item in a checklist, while the text ‘Thunderstorms’ and ‘Turbulence’ are checklist items. The checklist item may consist of label, checkbox, checkbox list, radio button list or drop-down list. In the example below, the ‘Thunderstorms’ item is check box, while the ‘Turbulence’ item is a drop-down list.
Select
Setup > Select Operational Risk Assessment Setup under Operations.
Select the tab corresponding with the required risk assessment.
The Checklist and Risk Bands panes are displayed.Click [+Add Header] in the Checklist pane.
Enter a descriptive title for the header in the Header text text box.
Enter the required formula in the Formula Group text box.
Click [Add].
Repeat Steps 3-6 to continue adding additional headers to the checklist.
Click [Add Item].
Enter a meaningful name for the checklist item in the Item name text box.
Select the applicable header for the checklist item from the Header drop-down list.
Select the applicable control type from the Control Type drop-down list.
Complete the applicable fields associated with the selected control type. For example, for the dropdown list control, you must enter each list item and the score applicable to each item.
Click [Add].
Repeat Steps 8-13 to continue adding additional checklist items to the checklist.