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Chapter 09 of 25 · MOC · Management of Change

Assess the changebefore it flies.

A new station, a new aircraft type, a reorganised ramp team, a rewritten procedure. Every change is a risk assessment with an owner, an approval that scales with the band it scored, and a review after it lands. The impacted areas and the hazards it touches are edges on the same graph as everything else, so a change is never a document filed beside the safety system.

In the operation
MOCManagement of Change
5capabilities
3record types
3linked modules
The scene
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The change is opened
A fleet-wide marshalling change is a change, so it opens as one. The impacted stations and the hazards it touches are attached as links, the risk assessment puts it in a band, and the band decides who is senior enough to approve it.
Why it holds

The approval rank rises with the risk band, automatically.

A change assessed into a higher band needs a higher approver, decided by the same band-escalation rule the flight risk assessment uses rather than a second approval system invented for changes. And the post-change review is a stage the record has to pass through, so a change cannot be closed on the day it was implemented.

What it does

The capabilities, on one record.

Seven stages, one path

Draft, impact assessment, risk assessment, approval, implementation, post-change review, closed. Each stage captures its own fields.

Approval scales with risk

The band recorded at risk assessment sets the approver rank required, the same rule the flight risk assessment applies.

Impact is on the graph

Impacted departments, stations and documents are link edges, and so are the hazards the change touches. No parallel register.

Implementation is CAPA

The work a change needs rides the same corrective-action machinery as every other action, linked back to the change.

The review is a stage

Post-change review carries its date and its evaluator on the record, so it is a gate to pass, not a reminder to miss.

The records it produces

Real records, one reference each.

Every record carries a stable reference and a source on every field. Nothing is silently overwritten, and the trail is the record.

A change has an accountable owner, not a reporter

The approver rank follows the risk band it scored

Impacted areas and hazards are edges, not a list in a field

The post-change review is a stage, so it cannot be skipped

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Change records
Operational, organisational, procedural or technical.
CAP
Actions
The implementation work, linked to the change.
HAZ
Hazards
The hazards the change is assessed against.
The gate

A change is not closed on the day it lands.

Post-change review is a stage the record has to pass through, carrying its date and its evaluator. Implementation is not the end of a change, it is the middle of one.

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10 · Emergency Response

The change is controlled and reviewed. The next chapter is for the day it goes wrong anyway: the drilled emergency response.