ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Flight Safety Foundation has completed seven workshops scheduled for 2016 as part of its Global Safety Information Project (GSIP) with several more to follow. Workshops have been held in Singapore, Sydney, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sao Paulo. The Foundation is formulating strategies and approaches to better collect, analyze and share safety data in order to reduce risk in the world of aviation. Safety management systems (SMS) are making some of this possible, as we see more and more countries setting expectations through rulemaking and aviation organizations practicing more detailed methods of risk management.
The workshops focus on the types of data most organizations might use to detect hazards and on how best to assess risks. The standards for SMS are contained in ICAO Annex 19 and one element requires organizations to gather data to provide indications on safety performance through related metrics. These are referred to as safety performa…
