PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SENIOR EXECUTIVES OF STATE EXECUTIVE AUTHORITIES INVOLVED IN THE ELIMINATION OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF AN AVIATION ACCIDENT

Abstract

The analysis of the complex of measures aimed at identifying aircraft that were or are in distress in the area of aviation search and rescue of Ukraine and providing well-timed assistance to the victims showed that the staff of the executive authorities, management bodies of search and rescue operations and search and rescue services are not always timely and not sufficiently confident in making decisions on the site of emergency operations, not professional enough to conduct search and rescue (SAR) operations, not accurate to organise the interaction of forces that are engaged in aviation search and rescue and also divisions directly responsible for SAR.

In order to specify the shortcomings in the training of personnel included in all aviation search and rescue authorities, the authors of the article created an information base of computer-oriented situational procedures for the list of functions defined in Section 3 (p. 2) of the Aviation Search and Rescue Rules in Ukraine (Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine dated 16.03.2015 № 279) for all participants of the operation of aviation search and rescue. According to the list of these procedures, they were experimentally assigned to working them out at specially organized staff trainings with staff of MASRCC and ASSRC, governing bodies at the airfields, operational coordination centres of the HD (U) SES in the regions. The staff of state executive bodies failed to take part in the experiment.

The results of the experiment, using the methodology of assessing the level of competence, allowed to analytically determine the integrated indicator of professional competence in the performance of the defined according to the post functions of each category of personnel, whose activity is related in one way or another, to the functioning of the aviation search and rescue system and direct search and rescue operations.

For objective reasons, the results of the study cannot be considered to be sufficiently correct due to a small number of respondents who participated in the experimental studies, but the findings were significantly correlated with the results of the ongoing review conducted in 2019 by the Aviation and Aviation Search and Rescue Department of the SES on the issues of search and rescue activities of ASAR personnel in response to aviation-related emergencies. But the integrated approach to determining the metrics allowed us to establish the trends quite certainly. The main essence of these trends is the imbalance of the curricula in the context of the ratio of fundamental and applied preparation, forms and types of theoretical and practical trainings and ignoring the possibilities of optimizing the content component on the basis of unification of educational, professional and certification processes.

The authors have convincingly proved the necessity of organizing and conducting the training of specialists of aviation search and rescue system entities (executive authorities, the SES, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, the National Police, the State Border Guard Service) involved in conducting aviation search and rescue operations on the basis of innovative organizational-pedagogical concepts (modular-competence, subject-activity and meta-subject approaches) as well as domestic and foreign experience.