LOSA A REGULATORS PERSPECTIVE

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LOSA A REGULATORS PERSPECTIVE

• Tim Allen
• General Manager Airlines
• Presentation to the LOSA Conference
• Kuala Lumpur - September 2005

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NZCAA

• Small Authority -181 Staff Three operating
  Groups - Airlines GA The rest
  
• Large Area of coverage
• Advice to Tonga - Samoa - Cook Islands - Nuie
• NZ CAA Rules Vanuatu Mongolia
• International participation

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Civil Aviation Act 1990

• Regulatory system built on shared
  responsibility for safety
  
• CEO is the participant in the aviation system
  and is responsible for safe operations. Safety
  culture will reflect CEOs view
  

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The Regulator LOSA

• Attended Dublin 2003 conference LOSA Initial
  Impression sensible practical way of getting
  that picture of normal operations Cholesterol
  check for an Airline and Industry
• Could have regulatory value!
• New Zealand small gene pool similar operators
  similar equipment pilots from similar
  background
  
• Any possible value Bench-marking industry
  thought about the value of National LOSA
  

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A small industry

• Mt Cook Airlines
• Freedom
• Eagle
• Air Nelson
• Air New Zealand
• JetConnect
• Pacific Blue
• Origin Pacific
• Airwork
• Airfreight
• Air Chathams

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LOSA - What Regulatory Value?

• Participation in LOSA implies a mature safety
  culture
  
• Could replace route audits over the period of the
  LOSA if results are available to the regulator
  
• CAA - Can give regulatory credit for LOSA, it is
  part of the equation of risk management
  
• Airline LOSA information What if the NZCAA
  could have access?
  
• What if the CAA and the airlines could use LOSA
  to benchmark airlines against each other? A
  National LOSA?

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LOSA in NZ

• Air NZ involved the CAA
• CAA involved industry invited Pat Murray to brief
  CEOs and senior management
  
• National LOSA concept was discussed and rejected
  on good advice dont run before you can walk!
  
• NZCAA position is to support the airlines with
  the introduction and use of LOSA
  

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NZCAA - Monitoring Risk intervention systems

• Monitoring Project - Capturing all of the data
  from audit and other contact with client
  Efficiency Project
  
• Risk Intervention Project Effective targeting
  of CAA resources based on risk Effectiveness
  of methods of intervention
  
• LOSA is just a part of the equation of the total
  knowledge of a client
  

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Present System Risk Assessment Profile

• Changes of type of equipment
• Changes to senior persons
• Operational stability
• Incidents
• Financial Status
• Single Pilot IFR Light Twin Operations
• Last Audit Quality Evaluation
• Non-compliance Evaluation

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Risk Assessment Profile new lines of data to be
incorporated

• LOSA
• FOQA
• Financial performance ratios
• OTP
• Training data
• High Level risk information
• ALAR programme
• Maintenance Error Management Programme

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LOSA NZCAA where to from here?

• Encourage our operators to continue with their
  LOSA programmes
  
• In the future when LOSA is just part of daily
  business for all airlines in NZ - review the
  merits of National LOSA Great from a
  regulators point of view to have a health check
  of the entire industry