CzeCh airlines - České aerolinie

Czech Airlines Security
annual report 2010 | 24
Security in civil aviation is highly influenced by international and primarily
European legislation. Czech Airlines incorporated all the changes in security
procedures in civil aviation made in 2010 into its internal documents and its new
Security Programme approved by the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic.
Among other things, these changes allowed for the streamlining of the pre-flight
and aircraft security checks, both from the procedural and economic standpoint.
Fire prevention in 2010 centred on regular fire inspections of all buildings where
Czech Airlines staff are employed. Internal and external audits of fire safety found
no defects.
Czech Airlines regularly checks the application of safety and emergency procedures
in all destinations operated by Czech Airlines, as well as consulting security
procedures with SkyTeam’s expert team. The number of emergency assistants in
the workforce was increased in 2010. Furthermore, a coordination drill codenamed
“May 2010” was conducted in all the involved units in order to test Czech
Airlines’ procedures during an air accident. Coordination drills were also staged
in cooperation with the Czech police. These were aimed at handling non-standard
situations on board aircraft, mainly to counter illegal actions. Regular training of
employees, as required by the Civil Aviation Act, was also carried out.
Having a long-term concept and strategy of checking and examining passengers’
travel documents both in the Czech Republic and abroad is gradually bringing
benefits. In 2010, the number of passengers with incomplete, forged or altered
documents decreased. In relation to the changing trends in the area of illegal
immigration, Czech Airlines concluded agreements reducing the costs these passengers
entail. The system of quality Management of security regulations for the
protection of civil air transport against illegal actions incorporated approximately
100 monitoring activities in 2010, which were carried out in the prescribed form
of safety audits, inspections and safety tests. The monitoring activities verified
that the standard of the functioning and general setup of security measures is
excellent.
Throughout 2010, Czech Airlines continued to improve its digital surveillance
camera system, above all by consolidating its servers and disc space for the effective
protection of the Company in the field of physical security. In the past year,
the Company also revitalized control mechanisms in the access system. Based on
the feedback obtained, IT security training for ground staff was adjusted and later
expanded to the flight division as well.