AVIATION SAFETY QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAMME

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AVIATION SAFETY QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAMME

• International Civil Aviation Organization
• Capt. Jan Jurek
• Regional Officer, Safety Oversight

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WHAT IS ASQAP ?

• It is a program with objective to prevent
  incidents and accidents trough corrective
  action provided by voluntary reports from
  Operators (Air Carrier) employees.
• ASQAP is non- punitive, non-disciplinary approach
  to accident prevention.
• It is a confidential agreement between the
  Individual, Operator and aviation regulating
  authority of the State, the CAA.
• Encourages preventive, rather than reactive,
  response.
• It is a Programme which maximizes the experience
  of pilots, mechanics, dispatchers and other
  key employees as the airlines most valuable
  safety resources and offers a corrective-action
  approach for prevention of incidents and
  accidents.

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Potential value of ASQAP to the Aviation Industry

• ASQAP- Provides significant accident/incidents
  prevention strategies to be employed and shared
  industry-wide.
• ASQAP- Can assist the CAA enforcement policy by
  ensuring compliance through corrective action.
• ASQAP- Can assist the NTSB with proactive
  recommendations before accident occur.
• ASQAP- Can lead to improvement in Air traffic
  control service.
• ASQAP- Data and analysis can be protected and
  shared with the industry as informative/aducationa
  l data base.

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KEY ELEMENTS OF ASQAP

• Proactive partnership approach
• Strong reporting incentives
• Closer association with ICAO, IATA,IAPA and the
  proper CAA.
• Scope of ASQAP
• Operators commitment, response, and
  accountability
• Flight safety benefits to airlines, pilots, Air
  traffic controllers and the CAA

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PROACTIVE PARTNERSHIP APPROACH

• Equal participation from airline flight and
  maintenance departments,
• The pilot association, the CAA is crucial to
  pilot confidence and to the overall success of
  ASQAP

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STRONG REPORTING INCENTIVES

• Sole Source protection Use immunity
• Corrective action, non punitive approach
• Operator Skill enhancement additional
  training-to-proficiency(no check rides or line
  checks)
• CAA Corrective action in lieu of legal
  certificate action
• Confidentiality-ASQAP report handled in
  confidential manner by Event Reporting Team
  (ERT) no record kept in a pilots personnel
  file.
• Anonymity provided after event review and
  corrective action is completed.

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ASSOCIATION WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND THE CAA

• Each report is automatically forwarded to the
  participating organizations.
• Pilots have confidence in CAA which contributes
  to ASQAP.
• Safety net if pilot does not agree with ERT
  recommendations and elect to withdraw from ASQAP

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SCOPE OF ASQAP

• Any report which describes a flight safety
  concern or possible Regulation deviation should
  be considered. At minimum, ASQAP should seek to
  address
• All phases of ground and flight operations and
  procedures
• Air Traffic Control
• Dispatch, load and aircraft performance
• Maintenance and MEL
• Human Factors
• Technology and aircraft equipment

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AIRLINE COMMITMENT, RESPONSE, AND ACCOUNTABILITY

• Airline management must commit to provide
  personnel and staff support, including a
  objective fourth party neutral to coordinate
  ASQAP and administer accounting system
• Airlines response to ERT recommendations must
  cross departmental boundaries system operational
  control, dispatch, maintenance, flight etc. ASQAP
  must have full support of senior airline
  operations management.
• ASQAP system accountability must allow documented
  response to ERT recommendations both with the
  airline and from the CAA

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FLIGHT SAFETY BENEFITS TO AIRLINES, PILOTS, AND
THE CAA

• Overall Safety Awareness. Each debrief is
  de-identified and than made available for review
  to all pilots of the airline. Periodic updates,
  safety analysis, posters, and E-Mail messages
  should be provided.
• ASQAP provides a clearer, more accute view of
  flight safety as provided by line pilots(less
  than 4 of all events have been reported by ATC
  so far with established programme.
• Corrective-action approach allows preventive
  action to be taken by those given flight safety
  responsibilities. ASQAP allows real solution to
  potential flight safety hazards identified by
  line pilots with natural applications to
  training,CRM,and line flying procedures.
• ASQAP is cost-effective. Previously required
  legal,representational and investigative expenses
  can now be applied to corrective and preventive
  actions.

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ERT DECISION GUIDELINE FLOWCHART
DOES THE DEBRIEF MEET ASQAP REPORTING
REQUIREMENTS ?
REJECTED FROM ASQAP WITH OR WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION
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OTHER DEPT ASQAP
DO WE BELIEVE THAT REGULATION WAS VIOLATED ?
WAS ANOTHER OPERATORS DEPT. OR INDIVIDUAL
OUTSIDE OF DEPT. SOLELY RESPONSIBLE ?
SELF DISCLOSURE
WAS RESPONSIBILITY SHARED WITH ANOTHER OPERATORS
DEPT OR INDIVIDUAL OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT ?
IS THERE A SIGNIFICANT FLIGHT SAFETY CONCERN
BEST ADDRESSED BY THE ERT ?
RETURN TO TRADITIONAL REPORTING SYSTEM WITH
OR WITHOUT RECOMMENDATIONS
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