Host: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
Pages 378
This research presents the philosophy and development of IOSA model in current airline industry. It starts with the introduction of safety challenge in the aviation industry, followed by the discussion of human error and organizational accidents, indicating that accident's contribting factors has been affected by "organizational and management factors". In an attempt to effectively deal with the organizational issues, IOSA program is designed to provide a common airline audit standard, which help the airline not only to deliver operational safety but also to operate more efficiently. After exploring how IOSA model can actually reduce airlne cost and share audit can increase its credit as well as business opportunity, conclusions will be made that the IOSA model can also be applied in different fields like airport operations, cargo operations as well as other transportation mode to achieve continous safety improvement and cost efficiency.
