In a recent speech, Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu, president of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council, said, “Traditional safety oversight has been focused mainly on assessing compliance using straightforward checklists, and has yielded excellent safety benefits. But if we are to continue to improve and safely meet the demands of our growing aviation system, we need to evolve further to establish and practice effective safety management.”
Aliu, who was speaking at an ICAO-sponsored Regional Safety Management Symposium in Kigali, Rwanda, also talked about the importance of a constant flow and sharing of safety information, and the need to protect that information to ensure that it is only being used for safety purposes. He also said that “the relationship between the State and service providers should evolve beyond compliance and enforcement [emphasis added]. It should instead function more as a close partnership, one aimed at maintaining or continuously …
