Since the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) introduced and implemented its new ”compliance philosophy” two years ago, the number of enforcement actions taken by the agency has declined 70 percent, according to a high-ranking FAA official.
In a speech prepared for Aug. 17 delivery to the Air Cargo Safety Forum, Ali Bahrami, FAA’s new associate administrator for aviation safety, said that during the same two-year period, FAA has corrected more than 8,000 safety issues using nonenforcement compliance actions.
“These actions represent issues that were identified, documented, and addressed with corrective action,” said Bahrami, who added that the compliance philosophy is an “overwhelming success” by any measure.
FAA, in an effort to embrace a just culture, implemented its compliance philosophy in 2015. Its objective is to identify safety issues that underlie deviations from standards and correct them as effectively, quickly and efficiently as possible, accordin…
