Commercial Fixed Wing
Other Safety Observer
No Specific Anomaly Occurred All Types
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy
I feel that the new chocking process for mainline flights is exteremly dangerous and could possibly result in a fatality. I am a trained safety observer for my airline. We have made great strides getting our fellow co-workers to follow the now 'old' chocking procedure. From my own personal observations our co-workers are waiting for the all clear signal before approaching the Aircraft under the 'old' way. I feel this 'new' procedure is going to put our co-workers at great risk because after wing walking the Aircraft into the gate their next focus is going to be to get the chocks which are staged in front of the Aircraft. While focusing on getting to the chocks they will be walking past a running engine with the risk of a person being ingested. I think this process needs to left alone and stay with the 'old' procedure.
An airline Safety Observer reports that a new company procedure for chocking arrival aircraft could lead to injury of ramp personnel.