Since mid-March, Flight Safety Foundation staff and contractors, led by Vice President, Technical, Mark Millam and Vice President, Global Programs, Greg Marshall have traveled tens of thousands of miles conducting workshops as part of our ongoing Global Safety Information Project (GSIP). As I write this, Greg and I are in Hong Kong getting ready to kick off the second day of a two-day GSIP workshop, and Mark has just returned from a week in Brazil, where he conducted workshops in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. As April drew to a close, the Foundation had conducted seven workshops, with at least six still to come.
What we’re doing on each trip is talking to stakeholders about safety data collection, processing and sharing opportunities and challenges, about information protection, and about tools and strategies to detect threats and assess risk. The Foundation is formulating strategies and approaches to better collect, analyze and share safety data in order to reduce risk, and we a…
