The Analysis of Threat Defining Language in the EU Official Transport Security and Safety Documents

Abstract

This paper analyses European Union safety agencies latest regulations deal with the different transport modes – The European Aviation Safety Agency, The European Union Agency For Railways, and The European Maritime Safety Agency, which are responsible for the aviation, rail and maritime sectors respectively, and European Union Road Safety latest documents. The analysis was conducted on the bases of synonyms for words “security” and “safety” according to Webster Dictionary of English language. Also, the author carried out a semantic manual analysis for words that could be included in the extended list of safety and security threats. The aim of the research is to find out the degree of importance of specific security and safety issues based on the statistical usage of synonyms for words “security” and “safety” as well as phrases included those words. The methodology used by the author includes the following: (1) literature review on the research topic; (2) European Union (EU) regulation documents quantitative and qualitative analysis. In the paper, the author analyses the list of the latest EU documents in the field of transport safety and security, including Regulation (EU) 2018/1139 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 4 July 2018 on common rules in the field of Civil Aviation, EU Strategic Action Plan on Road Safety, and Directive 2005/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2005 on enhancing port security. As findings the author proposes a table of degree of importance of specific security and safety matters based on the statistical usage of synonyms for words “security” and “safety” as well as phrases included those words.