Preben Lauridsen

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IFATCA's Perspective onTEM and NOSS

• Preben Lauridsen

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IFATCA's Involvement

• IFATCA participated in
• 1st ICAO TEM Workshop
• El Salvador, San Salvador, April 2002
• 3rd ICAO LOSA Week
• Dubai, UAE, October 2002
• 3rd ICAO/IATA TEM/LOSA Conference
• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 2005

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IFATCA's Position in 2002

• TEM philosophy can be applied to ATC
• Normal Operations Monitoring can be applied in
  ATC, but
• LOSA is not a suitable tool for ATC
• A new tool needs to be developed
• Normal Operations Monitoring is only useful in
  organisations with a mature Safety Management
  System

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Developments Since 2002

• 2003 Informal working group discussing a tool
  called Normal Operations Safety Survey NOSS
  (i.e. LOSA for ATC)
• 2004 ICAO establishes the NOSS Study Group
  (NOSSSG)
• Members Airservices Australia, Airways
  Corporation New Zealand, NavCanada, ATC The
  Netherlands, DFS Germany, Eurocontrol, UK CAA,
  FAA, IFATCA
• University of Texas as scientific advisor

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IFATCA Policy (2005)

• Monitoring Safety in Normal Operations must be
  seen as an integral element of a Safety
  Management System.
• A Safety tool such as NOSS, shall meet the
  following conditions
• Joint management/controller sponsorship
• Voluntary participation
• Trained observers
• set targets of safety enhancements
• de-identified, confidential, and non-disciplinary
  data collection
• adequate feedback of the results to the
  controller
• (Melbourne 05.C.5)

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Safety Change Process
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Message For ATSPs

• If you don't have a sound Safety Change Process,
  don't bother thinking about having a NOSS
• The TEM framework can be introduced in the
  training and operations of any ATSP

The TEM framework is a way of thinking almost a
safety philosophy NOSS is a tool for safety data
collection in normal operations, based on the TEM
framework
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IFATCA Policy (2005)

• Monitoring Safety in Normal Operations must be
  seen as an integral element of a Safety
  Management System.
• A Safety tool such as NOSS, shall meet the
  following conditions
• Joint management/controller sponsorship
• Voluntary participation
• Trained observers
• set targets of safety enhancements
• de-identified, confidential, and non-disciplinary
  data collection
• adequate feedback of the results to the
  controller
• (Melbourne 05.C.5)

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Protection of Sources of Safety Data

• IFATCA working paper for 11th ICAO Air Navigation
  Conference (2003) "A just culture, free from
  the threat of punishment is needed to ensure
  comprehensive and systematic safety occurrence
  reporting".

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Protection of Sources of Safety Data

• Resolution from ICAO Assembly (2004)"..to
  develop appropriate legal guidance that will
  assist States to enact national laws and
  regulations to effectively protect information
  from safety data collection systems, both
  mandatory and voluntary, while allowing for the
  proper administration of justice in the State..".

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IFATCA Position

• Investigation of safety occurrences should be the
  first priority not criminal prosecution
• Safety data collected under any programme must
  remain privileged information

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IFATCA Position

• Occurrence investigations must be completed
  properly and probable cause(s) determined so that
  steps can be taken to ensure that similar
  occurrences can be prevented
• In order to improve aviation safety there must be
  a free flow of safety-related information

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Conclusion

• IFATCA supports the development of NOSS as a tool
  for collecting safety data during normal ATC
  operations.