Safety Equipment and Cabin Furnishing Reporting
Flight crew shall be informed of discrepancies to, use of or damaged/defective safety equipment and/or aircraft furnishings that typically remain on the aircraft. This includes used or faulty aircraft equipment, used or faulty emergency equipment or faulty cabin furnishings. For example: • Faulty aircraft equipment (e.g. ovens, water boilers, unserviceable lavatory door, Inflight • Used or faulty emergency equipment (e.g. used oxygen bottle, expired equipment, broken/missing seals, worn/torn equipment stowage/containers, such as clear protective bag for the Fire Containment Bag (FCB)) • Faulty cabin furnishings (e.g. torn carpet, spillages on seats, damaged tray tables, frayed seat belts). If one of the above occurs, the following shall be used by the Cabin Manager (CM) to report used/faulty/defective equipment or furnishings: • Inflight Communication Form (VAGP-CC-105) (ICF).
Maintenance Log
The Maintenance Log is kept in the flight deck of all aircraft and is used by flight crew and maintenance personnel for recording airworthiness defects. Information reported on the Inflight Communication Form shall be transferred to the Maintenance Log by flight crew and endorsed.
Inflight Communication Form
This form shall be used to assist with communicating damaged, deficient, defective or unserviceable cabin equipment or furnishings (including IFE/Inflight WiFi) to flight crew. Note The notification/handover shall occur prior to PA ‘Cabin crew prepare for landing’ on descent. If defects or deficiencies were not detected until after this PA, handover shall occur after engine shutdown on arrival.
Reporting Cabin Condition Defects
- All crew shall ensure that any defect in the cabin is passed on to the CM.
- CM shall complete the appropriate section on the ICF. 3. CM shall verbally brief flight crew on details of cabin defects, at a suitable time.
- CM shall hand the ICF to flight crew.
- Captain will transfer information from the ICF to the Maintenance Log and endorse.
Post Use of Equipment
- Return used piece of equipment to its bracket/stowage, unless specified.
- Crew are to advise the Cabin Manager (CM) who in turn will advise the flight crew of:
a. Which equipment has been used.
b. The location of the equipment.
c. The quantity of the equipment used (if applicable).
d. Any other relevant information.
e. Safety Equipment and Cabin Furnishing Reporting f. Fill out the appropriate paperwork (e.g. Safety Report and/or Injury/ Illness Report
Biohazard Kit
The Biohazard Kit can be used in conjunction with the Dangerous Goods Kit if required when dealing with management of blood or other bodily fluids or if dealing with a passenger suspected of carrying a serious communicable disease or illness.
Contents of biohazard kit
10g Sachet absorbent granules (absorbs up to 900 ml of fluid)
Clinical waste bag
Apron
Face shield
Instructions
Gloves (single use)
Scoop and scraper
Absorbent cloth-chux type
Surface spray/deodoriser
2 Wipes
Braille Saftey instruction card
Braille safety instruction card covers the same amount of information as a safety instruction card. The document features a large print that may be used to assist hearing and vision impaired passengers as it provides written details from the manual safety demonstration PA
The disabled passenger briefing shall be completed prior to providing booklet passengers and directing them to the appropriate section features.
The card is A4 size
Text is translated into braille
Precautions
to ensure that the properties of the braille text do not get damaged, the document shall be placed back into its original stowage at the end of the flight to reduce Risk of damage. Do not stow cleaning chemicals or liquids in the same storage.
Cabin Preparation Cards
Cabin preparation cards are to be used in cabin preparation as an aid to prepare the cabin.
They consist of two cards
1) cabin preparation drill
2) abled body person briefings
the operation
Remove CP card from under jump seat and place around neck. Follow the instructions on card
after use prior to taking jump seats for landing or ditching remove card from around neck and return to under jumpseat
