Risk Management

Risk Management is an ever evolving science based on the tacit acceptance that no activity, including flying, can be completely risk free, but that risk should be managed so as to remain within acceptable bounds. As Wilbur Wright remarked to his father, "In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks".

Starspeed continually assesses the level of risk that safety hazards may have on our activities. We encourage a frank and open reporting system among staff and customers to help us identify actual and potential hazards. Risk management establishes the likelihood of a particular occurrence and its impact. We then determine how the hazard might affect our operation and apply control measures and processes to minimize a particular risk to an acceptably safe level.

The company maintains a Hazard Register and conducts risk management reviews to continually ensure the effectiveness of our control measures. Our policy of recruiting highly skilled, qualified and experienced staff, combined with thorough and comprehensive training programmes is an integral part of our risk management system. As well as a dedicated Safety Manager, we also employ industry experts for advice with specialist operations such as ship borne activities. This proactive approach to managing risk provides positive control as opposed to reaction to failures. It also makes for long-term cost efficiency and provides a process for 'change management' and procurement.