Bert Ruitenberg

1
IFATCA's Perspective onTEM and NOSS

• Bert Ruitenberg
• Human Factors Specialist

2
Earlier Involvement

• IFATCA participated in
• 1st ICAO TEM Workshop
• El Salvador, San Salvador, April 2002
• 3rd ICAO LOSA Week
• Dubai, UAE, October 2002

3
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

4
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

5
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 a
• adequate feedback of the results to the
  controller
• (Melbourne 05.C.5)

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NOSS Trials

• IFATCA supports the NOSS trials that are held in
  2005
• Airservices Australia (completed)
• Airways Corporation New Zealand (completed)
• NavCanada (scheduled)