Challenging questions demanded candid answers from presenters and workshop leaders in February 2008 when the Southern California Safety Institute (SCSI) brought flight attendants and other airline safety, health and security specialists together for the International Aircraft Cabin Safety Symposium (CSS) in Montreal.
People who manage, train and/or compose today’s cabin crews increasingly see themselves as agents of change in the aviation safety community, according to Sharon Morphew, SCSI’s manager of the CSS, and other symposium organizers. Among the most safety-oriented highlights of the symposium, which also included a number of security-oriented presentations and workshops, were the following messages.
Merlin Preuss, director general of civil aviation in Canada, said that the introduction of safety management systems — and a counterpart for airline security — urgently requires research, open dialogue and global harmonization of solutions for various cabin safety prob…
