International Civil Aviation Organization

RSOOs and the new ICAO Strategies and Programmes

Simon CleggGeneral Manager Government & Strategy

Civil Aviation Authority New Zealand

28 October 2011

New ICAO strategies & programmes

State Safety Programmes (SSP) supporting Safety Management Systems (SMS)

Continuous Monitoring Approach to assess effectiveness of State oversight)

Global Aviation Safety PlanRegional Aviation Safety Groups & plans

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New ICAO strategies & programmes (2)

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State Safety Programme

The SSP embodies the same risk based approach as required for operator Safety Management Systems • State regulators have to identify and target risks within national

aviation systems• Data driven• Monitor targets• Review progress and evaluate plan/strategy

An SSP is essential to support the Continuous Monitoring Approach The CMA depends on data and information that SSP will

generate

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ICAO’s SSP elements

Four main elements with 15 components1. An overall safety policy and set of objectives2. Parameters for safety risk management3. Processes to provide safety assurance4. Active safety promotion

These components incorporate many of the 8 elements of a state safety oversight system but add to or extend these

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RSOOs & SSPs

• State Safety Programme involves a number of analysis systems that need “critical mass”

– 2.1 Actual identification of risks– 2.2 Approval of a target level of safety

– 3.2 Safety data collection & analysis– 3.3 Targeted oversight on areas based on that

data

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RSOOs & SSP (2)

RSOOs– can provide economies of scale for these systems eg • safety information databases• common hazard identification methodologies • shared risk assessment approaches• pooled risk and safety analysis expertise

– could prepare SSPs that cover a number of states• especially when there are low levels of aviation activity in

RSOO member states

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RSOOs and operator oversight

• Operator oversight under the SSP/safety management approach is continuous, risk based and data driven– This means that information from certification and

surveillance/auditing needs to be retained to assist targeting of oversight

• RSOO may need to provide the supporting systems to capture and retain operator audit data for smaller states– Eg Surveillance/Audit databases

• This information may need to be correlated with mandatory and voluntary safety reporting sources

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ALOS & performance measurement

• Acceptable level of safety - politically difficult concept• In New Zealand looking at

– Target of zero fatalities• With specific goals of no fatalities in regular public transport• Declining accident rate and severity in other subsectors

– Due to low frequency of events also trying to measure level of risk in the civil aviation system • + how this changes over time

• Level of risk and/or industry compliance with standards should offer a performance measurement tool for the effectiveness of RSOOs

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Summary of Key points

• State Safety Programme involves additional elements beyond the 8 elements of a state safety oversight system

• For smaller states, RSOOs may provide a better way to build and maintain the systems required to support SSP and the SMS approach

• SSP should offer way to measure effectiveness of RSOOs