Required Elements of an Operational Risk Assessment

In plain language

When preparing a risk assessment for a specific category operation, you must ensure it covers the operational characteristics, safety objectives, ground/air risks, mitigations, and the robustness of those mitigations.

Requirement as structured

An operational risk assessment must describe the UAS operation, propose safety objectives, identify ground and air risks, identify mitigating measures, and determine the robustness of those measures.

Original regulatory text

1. An operational risk assessment shall: (a) describe the characteristics of the UAS operation; (b) propose adequate operational safety objectives; (c) identify the risks of the operation on the ground and in the air considering all of the below: i. the extent to which third parties or property on the ground could be endangered by the activity; ii. the complexity, performance and operational characteristics of the unmanned aircraft involved; iii. the purpose of the flight, the type of UAS, the probability of collision with other aircraft and class of airspace used; iv. the type, scale, and complexity of the UAS operation or activity, including, where relevant, the size and type of the traffic handled by the responsible organisation or person; v. the extent to which the persons affected by the risks involved in the UAS operation are able to assess and exercise control over those risks. (d) identify a range of possible risk mitigating measures; (e) determine the necessary level of robustness of the selected mitigating measures in such a way that the operation can be conducted safely.

Applies when

operation

specific_category_operations

regulatory category

Specific