What is SMS?

What is SMS?

SMS Statement

As TAV Macedonia, we consider all our activities as part of our innovative management mentality and accept the Sustainable Safety Management (SMS) System practices we implement for our employees, airport users and stakeholders as the integral part of our proactive approach.

With the goal to fulfill this commitment, we develop, implement and sustain strategies and processes, and embrace the following policies and principles for constant improvement in order to achieve the maximum safety performance level:

  • Provide the necessary manpower and financial resources in order to develop, improve and sustain the Safety Management System practices and operate with a fair culture approach.
  • Establish an effective safety reporting systematic by building a strong communication network between disciplines in order to manage the Safety Management System practices actively.
  • Develop and maintain strategies while accommodating the system requirements in order to transform the activities carried out into voluntary and natural behaviors of the employees.
  • Internalize the Safety Management System of all employees starting from the top management so that we can establish a structure where the system will feel responsible for displaying behaviors that will improve itself to the highest level.
  • Develop processes through security threat analysis, which will focus on identifying dangers described as related to human factor and eliminating the risks rising from these dangers or reducing them to an acceptable level.
  • Comply with the contract terms, national and international regulations and legal legislations relevant to the Safety Management System practices and requirements.
  • Support the employees through training and development programs in order to increase their personal awareness and competences in Safety Management System rules and practices, and strengthen the Safety Management System by getting the employees involved in areas where they can use these skills.
  • Set measurable, achievable and time-dependent goals in order to constantly monitor and improve the safety performance, decide on the precautions to be materialized in line with these goals and run the Safety Management System review process.
  • Ensure that our suppliers and sub-contractors meet the Safety Management System performance standards set by us.
  • Make sure of the implementation of all procedures, instructions and other rules that are prepared to protect the Safety Management System standards set by the company and provide excellent system performance.
  • Encourage all employees to be involved in the system by considering all the communication received from them as notices non-penal notifications as part of the Safety management System practices, which contributes to the improvement of the system.

What is SMS?

Safety management system is a management system that enables us to define the dangers occurring during our activities, calculate the risks, reduce these risks to an acceptable level by implementing necessary improvement work, and constantly monitor and improve the safety performance.

Management of safety risks is the basic requirement in the aviation sector.

Continuous improvement of the safety in aviation and development of the services we offer can only be viable when our stakeholders are responsive towards the safety issue.

The SMS requirements that the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) introduced to the entire aviation sector with its Safety Management System Manual 9859-AN/474, edition 3.

On a national scale; establishing and implementing an SMS became a legal requirement for organizations following the regulation by the Civil Aviation which was published in Official Gazette 151/2007 dated 14.12.2007,

 

REPORTING SMS RELATED EVENTS   

Contact

Phone: ++389 2 3148 314; ++389 72 313 956 
E-mail: safetyskp@tav.aero

Frequently Asked Questions

There is no regular shuttle bus for passengers to Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle Airport; there is only organized shuttle bus transportation within the arranged tours/seasonal (charter) flights by the local travel agencies.
Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle Airport is opened according to the flights timetable.
Check-in at the passenger and baggage check-in counters starts 120 minutes (2 hours) before the scheduled time of departure (STD) specified on your flight ticket. The closing time of the airport check-in counter is no later than 40 minutes before STD stated on your flight ticket.
For more information regarding flights, please visit the airport web-site, in the Arrivals and Departures section, where any change in the flights schedule is updated in real time, or, as soon as information from the airlines are received.
If you need urgent additional information about your flight, please contact the Information Desk on the following phone numbers:

++ 389 46 252 820

++ 389 46 252 821

++ 389 46 262 503

Passengers are allowed to carry items that are not additionally charged, such as the following: jacket, 1 umbrella or walking stick, 1 women’s purse, 1 camera or binoculars, 1 baby transporter carry cot, 1 pair of crutches, or similar prosthetic mobility aids, medical equipment on which the passenger is dependent on, proper quantity of baby food.
Regarding the amount of the baggage charges, please contact your airline, because each airline has its own baggage policy and rules.
If you have any specific question regarding the allowed/prohibited items to be carried in the baggage, please send your question to our Customer Relations Department to the following e-mail: customer.mk@tav.aero
In case of lost or damaged baggage, please immediately go to the Lost & Found Department, which is located near the baggage claim area, i.e., in the Arrivals Area after Passport Control and before Customs Control.
Our employees from L&F will prepare a lost/damaged baggage report for you, that you’ll later on send it to your airline. If you need to contact the Lost&Found department, please write us on: dutyohd@tav.aero 
For lost or found items on the plane, please contact us at the same email: dutyohd@tav.aero 
If you lose or find a personal item in the airport building, please report it immediately either to the Information Desk or to the Security staff, while if you have already left the airport, please write to us at lostbaggage.ohrid@tav.aero
All details at:
http://ohd.airports.com.mk/en-EN/passenger-guide/airport-facilities-services/page/lost-luggage 

It is not necessary for you to reserve a car park lot in advance.

Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle Airport car park pricelist:

PARKING

Up to 1 hour

1 – 2 hours

2 – 3 hours

3 – 4 hours

4 – 8
hours

8 – 12
hours

12 – 24 hours

3 – 7 days  

Car

90

120

150

180

230

270

600

1.500

Bus

250

400

500

600

800

1.000

1.600

4.000

 
For traveling with a pet onboard an aircraft, passengers are required to provide all necessary documents and vaccines for the pet prior to their travel. For more detailed information please contact your airline.
Certain airlines do not allow pets onboard the aircraft, except for assistance dogs. Proper travel documents are required to be submitted for these dogs.
Currently – no. At Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle Airport, smoking is allowed only at the open bar terrace located in front of the terminal building.
For any other question that does not require immediate response, or if you have any other complaint or compliment, please send an e-mail to: customer.mk@tav.aero. This is our Customer Relations Department, and our staff will respond to you accordingly as soon as possible.