Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicle systems play an increasingly important role in crisis management andrescue. The specificity of such operations makes it difficult to conduct a typical risk analysis.The paper presents European and national regulations concerning the use of UAS in relationto operational safety issues. It presents also an outline of proposed changes in relation to safetyissues in the Polish aviation law. Next it contains a discussion on the meaning of risk andprovisions regarding how to perform operational risk assessment in EU regulations and providesa characterization of the specificity of UAS operations in rescue and crisis management. Thegeneral principles and the procedure of the SORA analysis method were presented. The SORAmethod was referred to rescue and crisis operations and an assessment was made of its usefulness.A proposal was made for an alternative ERA-2.0 risk analysis method and presented for UASrescue and crisis management operations.

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