1.2 Safety in the Aviation Workplace

• General rules for personal safety in the aviation workplace
• Hazards in the aviation workplace
• Common injuries and their classification (minor, serious, fatal)
• First aid for aviation-workplace injuries

• explain the general rules for personal safety in the aviation workplace
• describe the hazards to personal safety in the aviation workplace
• classify common injuries in the aviation workplace
• perform first aid procedures for injuries in the aviation workplace
• appreciate the role of safety in the aviation workplace

“Why is safety important in the aviation workplace?”

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1. Safety in the aviation workplace
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   The general safety rules of the aviation workplace, the hazards to personal safety, the common injuries and how they are classified (minor, serious, fatal), basic first aid, and why safety is critical in aviation.
2. Why safety is the first priority
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   Why the aviation workplace treats safety as non-negotiable: harm to people, aircraft and Kenya's transport system, and the KCAA safety culture that every learner must join.
3. General rules for personal safety
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   The standing personal-safety rules of the aviation workplace: authorisation, procedures, concentration, housekeeping, known exits, and stopping work that is not safe.
4. Personal protective equipment
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   What PPE is, which items protect which hangar and ramp hazards, and why PPE is the last barrier - never a substitute for a guard or a tidy floor.
5. Housekeeping and tool control
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   Why a clean hangar is a safety control: clear walkways, spill control, shadow boards and accounting for every tool so nothing is left in an airframe.
6. FOD: foreign object debris
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   What FOD is, how debris and loose tools damage engines, tyres and flight controls, and the FOD-walk habit used at Kenyan airports.
7. Propellers, jet blast and intake
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   The invisible killer zones around running engines: the propeller disc, jet-intake suction and jet blast, and the approach rules used on Kenyan ramps.
8. Hangar and workshop safety
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Machine guards, hot work, compressed air, jacked aircraft and sheet-metal cuts - the everyday hangar hazards beyond the ramp.
9. Slips, trips, height and lifting
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   How people fall in hangars and on ramps, the rules for ladders and stands, and safe manual handling of parts and toolboxes.
10. Fuel, fire and electricity
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    The fire triangle applied to Avgas and Jet A-1, bonding when refuelling, extinguisher sense, and isolating electrical energy before work or first aid.
11. Chemicals and fumes
    40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
    Hangar chemicals (solvents, paints, hydraulic fluid, battery acid), how they enter the body, how to read an SDS, ventilation, PPE and spill response.
12. Noise and hearing protection
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    Why ramp and hangar noise damages hearing permanently, when ear plugs or defenders are required, and simple vibration awareness.
13. Classifying workplace injuries
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    How aviation-workplace injuries are classed as minor, serious or fatal, common injury types, and why even minor injuries are recorded.
14. First aid for aviation injuries
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    Performable first aid for cuts, burns, fractures and electric shock, plus when to call 999 or 112, without pretending to be a full medic.
15. Reporting hazards, accidents and near-misses
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    How reporting breaks the chain from hazard to accident, what a near-miss is, just culture, and how a Grade 10 learner raises a concern in the workshop.