Risk mitigation is necessarily a cooperative activity. It takes stakeholders from across the aviation industry doing their parts individually and in coordination with others to create the effective layers of mitigations that keep crews and passengers safe flight after flight, year after year. Organizations outside of aviation have an important role to play, too, and sometimes that role is to enforce standards and regulations that already are on the books.
Recently, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and trade associations representing leaders of the lithium battery supply chain released a joint statement demanding stricter enforcement of international regulations regarding the transport of lithium batteries (see “Safety News” ). The call for stricter enforcement of regulations was aimed at ministers of trade, industry and transport and directors of civil aviation in the world’s largest lithium battery manufacturing and export countries.
According to IATA Directo…
