Factors influencing air safety performance in Kenya: a case of Kenya airways limited in Nairobi county

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine factors influencing air safety performance in Kenya. The objectives of this study are: To assess how the implementation of air safety curriculum influences airline safety performance, to establish how the capacity of instructors influences airline safety performance, to evaluate how management support on air safety training influences airline safety performance and to assess how re-current training influences airline safety performance. The Literature review focused on all the above mentioned objectives. The research project employed a survey design. This design was appropriate for this study because it necessitated collection, organization and summarizing data from a sample for conclusions. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Frequencies were used to analyze all the four sections of the questionnaire. Summary measures of central tendency (mean) and dispersion (standard deviation) was calculated. The study revealed that there was a positive significant relationship between implementation of the air safety curriculum and air safety performance. The study further revealed that there was a positive significant relationship between capacity of instructors and airline safety performance. The study also revealed that there was a positive significant relationship between air safety performance and management support for training. Finally the study revealed there was a positive significant relationship between re-current training and airline safety performance. The study recommends the need for Kenya Airways to enhance the training curriculum content which is considered to be very important to organizations in the airline industry as they guide the manner in which training is carried out. A well researched training curriculum that seeks to incorporate research findings drawn from need assessment improves professional skills that enhance airline staff to work more efficiently. The study also recommends the need to ensure that training instructors are well equipped with requisite skills so as to be able to effectively calibrate and standardize their own skills. The study further recommends the need for the management to equip employees with suitable resources, tasks as well as abilities to design, classify, employ and gauge their work, so that they can be able to carry out necessary action in order to fully optimize their contributions to the organization in a manner that is valuable to air safety performance. Finally the study recommends the need for management to offer good leadership. This means therefore that there is need to balance between effective leadership experiences, combined with valuable management skills, which can enhance air safety performance