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Airport Work Safety

While workplace health and safety (WHS) is everyone’s responsibility, a WSO is not a WHS expert. A WSO is an aviation safety expert. The diverse role of a WSO is to ensure the safety of aircraft and services at the airport and to ensure that airport works do not affect the operational safety of the airport. While workplace health and safety (WHS) is everyone’s responsibility, a WSO is not a WHS expert. A WSO is an aviation safety expert. The diverse role of a WSO is to ensure the safety of aircraft and services at the airport and to ensure that airport works do not affect the operational safety of the airport. Work conducted on an airport’s airside changes the normal operation of that airport, given that the works can often necessitate the closure of portions of the movement areas, making these areas unavailable for aircraft A well trained WSO will facilitate the airside works to minimise the operational impact on airlines and other aircraft. On larger and more complex airport works projects, multiple WSOs can be required to manage disparate work sites.

Local and Cost Effective

Oz Airports is the leader in the provision of WSOs in Australia, with over 50 fully qualified and trained WSOs on staff.
These staff are strategically based in each Australian State to minimise travel and mobilisation costs to site and are routinely engaged in any one of our dozen concurrent airport works projects around Australia.

Skilled Staff and Compliant Vehicles

Large airport works projects are often only undertaken, particularly in the regional airport sector, every 15 -20 years and in line with runway and taxiway resurfacing and airfield lighting replacements.
It is often the case that permanent staff at an airport have never experienced or had to manage large scale airport works projects. Furthermore, the addition of many workers and equipment as part of airport works projects can be beyond the capacity of an airport to manage, given that the airport staff have daily duties to complete. Therefore, WSOs are sourced by the airport operator to not only supplement staff numbers, but to also bring high levels of corporate experience in managing airport works programs to the project.

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Flexibility on Projects

Oz Airports can offer the flexibility in many cases to scale the number of WSOs at any given project to reduce additional staffing costs as individual projects reach milestones in their delivery.

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