Airport Construction Safety Consulting
Worldwide Aviation Solutions LLC has the experience to help you guarantee safe operations at your airport during runway and taxiway construction projects. Mr. Krieger was a co-founder and Chairman of the FAA Airport Construction Advisory Council (ACAC), a group established by the FAA in response to serious safety events during construction activities at many US airports and globally. The ACAC developed numerous mitigations to ensure airport construction safety in the United States under his leadership.
ACAC innovations under Mr. Krieger's leadership include new construction signage and colors, comprehensive construction safety checklists, intuitive graphic construction NOTAMs, and enhanced air traffic control procedures and phraseology designed to mitigate construction hazards.
Mr. Krieger has influenced global airport construction safety as well. On request, he rewrote a significant portion of Chapter 8 of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Airport Safety Manual (ASM), a section currently awaiting ratification by ICAO member states. In addition, he is proud to have frequently collaborated with EUROCONTROL, the French Air Navigation Service Provider (DSNA), and the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to exchange experiences, understanding, notification and response processes, and best practices for airport construction safety.
TORA sign at O'Hare airport
This sign was first introduced at O'Hare Airport in response to several serious runway safety events in which pilots were unaware that a runway had been shortened due to construction. Note the use of a typical black lettering on yellow background information sign.
Construction orange airport signage
This simple concept was introduced by the Airport Construction Advisory Council during Jim Krieger's tenure as Chairman and has been tested across the United States. At Mr. Krieger's urging, international testing of this concept has also been conducted at Charles de Gaulle airport. Test results worldwide are proving that the construction orange signs are much more effective at communicating critical safety information compared to the traditional yellow and black information signs.