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The FAA also convened a Safety Risk
Management (SRM) panel on the topic and
released an additional report on jet fuel
contamination with DEF in August of 2019.
The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has also been a vocal leader
in preventing misfuelings.
"NATA is proud to have taken a lead
on preventing DEF contamination," says
Mike France, managing director of safety
and training at NATA. "We released DEF
contamination prevention training within
two weeks of the first contamination event
and then integrated that training into
our Professional Line Service Training
requirements.
"The NATA Safety Committee released
the Safety 1st Operational Best Practice for
DEF Contamination Prevention," France
notes. "We recently released an updated version of our DEF Contamination Prevention
Training into the new Safety 1st Training
Center and distributed free DEF decals to
our members and the industry."
The National Transportation Safety
Board (NTSB) has recommended several
steps for fuel providers to take to avoid
confusion and risk contamination. Among
others, the organization recommends that
FBOs clearly mark chemical containers that
meet OSHA requirements with stenciled
letters or decals like the ones provided by
the NATA. These markings should be visible on all sides of the container.
Even when the containers are clearly
marked, the NTSB recommends that FBOs
do not store DEF and FSII close to each
other, since it is hard to differentiate these
colorless liquids.
What's more, all staff should be trained
on the storage locations of DEF and FSII, the

packaging and labeling of both chemicals
and the hazards associated with aviation
fuel contamination.
Individual FBOs have taken action, as
well, to further mitigate the risk of fuel
contamination.
"In August of 2018, we decided on and
implemented a system that we thought

would be a huge step towards avoiding
an incident at our airport," Holman Aviation's Hill says. "We also put our employees through NATA misfueling prevention
training and emphasize the correlation
between fuel type/grade misfueling and
additive misfueling. The NTSB released a
safety alert that we also use as a job aid."
He explains his FBO has migrated to a
totally enclosed system with FSII.
"All of our fuel trucks that have a FSII
tank on them have a safety wired dry-break
system for filling the tank," Hill notes.
"Never say never, but a line tech is unable
to pour any fluid into one of our FSII tanks
without using the dry-break system."
Most important is the education of the
men and women on the ramp.
"Train and brief. Brief and train," Hill
says. "Don't stop talking about it."

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