Products & Services
Avisure aims to provide the aviation industry with the world's best products, processes, research and expert advice to ultimately reduce the occurrence of bird strike and establish a benchmark in the industry that encourages a global proactive approach to bird strike management.
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Avisures team of experts can help you mitigate your bird strike risks in the following ways:
- Bird Management Program Audits
- Wildlife Dispersal and Management
- Risk Assessment
- Bird Strike Management Plans
- Bird Strike Management Training & Workshops
- Airport Works Safety Officers
Bird Management Program Audits
An Avisure audit of an airports bird management program includes:
- Entry and exit meetings with key airport staff and stakeholders.
- An analysis of all available data including bird strike records, aircraft movements, bird count data etc. This analysis helps to identify strike trends and quantify risks.
- A review of current wildlife hazard management practices and current wildlife hazard management risks.
- Standardised on-airport surveys and an assessment of off-airport hazards.
Results of the audit are compiled into an audit report that includes:
- Compliance against the International Bird Strike Committee Recommended Practices No.1: Standards for Aerodrome Bird/Wildlife Control.
- Compliance against the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) MOS Part 139 (or equivalent civil aviation regulations in countries other than Australia).
- An appraisal of bird and wildlife reporting and management procedures.
- An assessment of the risk using industry-endorsed semi-quantitative assessments.
- Recommended measures to best manage the bird strike risk at your airport.
Wildlife Dispersal and Management
Avisure offers highly experienced airside bird controllers, including the use of dogs on airports. Avisure bird controllers hold Cat A & B Weapons Licence, CASA ASIC and Australian Aerodrome Reporting Officer Certificates. Our dispersal programs incorporate the use of various tools including, but not limited to: canine, pyrotechnics, live shot, distress caller, siren, lights, stockwhip, and other noise generating devices. Read more about our Canine Dispersal Program here.
Risk Assessment
We use industry endorsed assessments that will assist in quantifying high and moderate risk species. Using an airports strike records, we use the the Allan (2006) method that accounts for both the species involved in strikes (probability) and their mass (consequence).
We also use bird survey data (Shaw 2004) that provides real time risk assessment. This model for determining risk categories uses professional bird survey data and involves using survey data to derive values for:
- probability factors (i.e population size, position on airport, time spent in air, species ability to avoid etc)
- consequence factors (i.e. bird mass, flocking tendency, flock size etc)
This data is then fed into a risk matrix. The process is intended to provide a transparent, logical and systematic approach to the identification and treatment of wildlife related risks. The risk assessment identifies high risk species, which allows suitable management practices to be targeted in areas where the maximum reduction in risk may be achieved.
Bird Strike Management Plans
A vital and strategic step in bird and wildlife strike management is implementing an ongoing management plan following an on-site audit and risk assessment.
An Avisure management plan can be adapted and implemented globally, specifically developed to target high and moderate risk species and locations identified on airport. Developed in collaboration with key airport staff the risk assessment provides management with guidance and detail to maximise a return on their investment. The Avisure training workshops provide further explanation and understanding of the processes involved to effectively develop and implement a plan.
Avisure prioritises recommendations for improving bird and wildlife management including individual management plans for each of the most hazardous species and action plans for on and off airport locations that contribute most to bird/wildlife risk.
An Avisure management plan establishes goals and key performance indicators to allow the organisation to monitor and evaluate the plan’s implementation and its effectiveness. The development and the implementation of the plan will minimise the likelihood of bird and wildlife strikes and form an integral support tool if litigation occurs following a significant strike incident.
Bird Strike Management Training & Workshops
Years of hands on experience and research has contributed to the development of a training program specifically for personnel involved in bird and wildlife strike management. From airport operators and safety regulators to airline staff, Avisure training workshops provide cutting edge solutions essential to effective bird and wildlife control.
During the training program Avisure experts will introduce several units, discuss each at length, provide tangible examples and equip personnel with knowledge about the increasing importance of bird and wildlife controls and implementation of an ongoing management plan.
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Airport Works Safety Officers
As an integral business component in the safety operation of airports Avisure provides Works Safety Officers to complement their ongoing risk mitigation strategies and ensure a safe working environment for all during airport construction works and development.
Under CASA regulations an airport undertaking construction activities is required to appoint work safety officers to ensure compliance with airport operating regulations and to monitor and enforce safety and security measures. The Avisure Works Safety Officer can provide appropriate levels of supervision, facilitate effective communication between airport construction stakeholders, issue and control visitor passes for workers without security clearance and provide airside vehicle escort services.
Avisure Works Safety Officers have a thorough knowledge and experience in airport operations including the legal and safety requirements surrounding airport construction. We promote a pragmatic approach to construction projects that ensures minimal disruption of normal airport activity; allows construction teams to “get the job done”, yet affords maximum safety through rigorous adherence to the Regulations.
Our specially trained officers also provided airports with the option to supplement their bird dispersal activities.
The Avisure team is committed to working as an extension to the client’s team to achieve best results in the following areas:
- Adherence to relevant safety and security requirements for works carried out in security restricted areas of all airports
- Communication of safety and security requirements to all relevant stakeholders
- Facilitation of work progress
- Relationship management of key stakeholders involved in airport safety, security and construction activity
- FOD sweeping
Avisure’s experienced team each have:
- Current Australia-wide ASICs
- Authority to drive airside at several airports in fully equipped 4wd vehicles
- Blue and Green ‘Construction safety induction’ cards
- Aerodrome Reporting Officer certificates (ARO)
- Day/night Authority to Drive Airside (ADA)
- Radio Telephone Operators Certificate
- Specialised bird and wildlife training to disperse and remove wildlife hazards