It is commonly, if not universally, held that efforts to enhance aviation safety benefit from the sharing of information within departments, across organizations and among industry and government stakeholders encompassing a variety domains, including airlines, air navigation service providers (ANSPs), manufacturers, suppliers and regulators. But sharing data outside of an organization is complicated by a host of factors, including the difficulty of standardizing data and taxonomies across multiple companies and the need to protect proprietary data from potentially inappropriate use.
A diverse group of commercial aviation stakeholders is working on an initiative that will enable the sharing of safety knowledge and experience to enhance overall industry risk management and safety efforts without requiring organizations to share internal data.
The purpose of the Common Aviation Risk Models (CARM) effort is to build a collaborative, international consensus around a set of bow-tie bas…
