QANTAS CASE STUDY

Qantas Case study

Qantas Case study

Introduction

'Qantas' is the nationwide airline of Australia. On November 4th 2010, Flight 32 endured a grave malfunction of its left inboard motor while taking off from Singapore Changi aerodrome - the motor blew up in midflight, with parts of it dropping over Bantam Island, Indonesia. Although the air journey securely set down at Singapore, the occurrence produced in the grounding the airline's whole A380 fleet.  The motor was a Trent 900 which had been constructed by Rolls-Royce, and Qantas asserted that conceive obvious errors in these motors had initiated the accident. Alan Joyce, the head boss of Qantas, asserted that 'oil had been discovered where oil shouldn't be' on the motors, and that 'these are new motors on a new airplane and they shouldn't have these matters at this stage'.  However, Rolls Royce said that until this misfortune, they hadn't had an motor malfunction on a large municipal airplane since 1994; but they subsequent disclosed that the malfunction was confined to a 'specific component' on the Trent 900 engines. However Rolls Royce's portions dropped harshly after the blast, partially due to anxieties about the need of data from Rolls Royce about the origin of the accident.

 

Risk and Safety

Safety is an emergent property that arises at the system level where the components work together. The events that led to an accident can be a complex combination of equipment failures, poor maintenance, instrumentation and control problems, human actions, and design errors. Reliability analysis only considers the possibility of accidents related to failures, but does not investigate the possible damages that might result from the successful operation of individual components. In Qantas case safety concerns were not fully avoided, security systems in the platform itself must be examined in detail. But the end result will probably be similar to this: the platform is a complex system vulnerable to blast and fire, and always had a calculable (though probably small) probability of catastrophic fire and loss of the ship, this is quite similar to the problem of safety in aircraft and other complex electro-mechanical systems (Robertson, 56).

offshore oil companies and gas exploration and production deal with a wide range of complex maritime hazards and exposures, such as environmental uncertainty (e.g., hurricanes), adverse exposures in the drilling and construction of oil wells sea, the team's performance, and defects in the plans and specifications. Despite these risks often cannot lead to major oil spills at sea have the potential to generate important first-and third-party claims for cleanup costs under state and federal laws. In the 1960's, a specialty niche offshore energy insurance market emerged to provide pollution liability coverage for third party property claims and risks of cleanup and containment, oil well explosion, and re-drill.

A well known problem in the management of risk is the risk management structure to ensure adequate risk information, the scale and allocation of significant risks in the hierarchy of the organization, and routines for the transfer of risk between different organizational ...