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Safety Plans

The Safety Plans represent the more operationally focused part of the State Safety Programme (SSP). 

There is one Safety Plan for all the OTs.  In addition, each OTAA is responsible for its own Safety Plan to allow for variations to cover local needs.

The purpose of a Safety Plan is to enable linkage between national regulatory planning and the regulated organisations.  This is done by providing safety objectives suitable for adoption in operators' and service providers' safety management systems (SMS) to give focus for proactive measures to improve safety.

The All-OT Safety Plan generated by ASSI includes:

Aims and objectives:  These are provided for a period of three years, grouped into seven subject domains.

Safety performance indicators (SPI):  Examples are provided of activities to be conducted by an organisation towards meeting the safety objectives in their SMS.  In each case examples of monitoring questions are also given, to be used to measure successful implementation.  Wherever possible these activities and questions are defined in terms that are quantifiable, as a means to verify satisfactory operational performance of the system.

Safety performance targets (SPT): In many areas of aviation in the OTs there is an absence of information suitable for establishing baseline performance trends or comparison data, therefore an important early activity will be to ensure that data is gathered and recorded.  Improved data collection, including safety data from routine aviation operations, will enable greater use of more quantified safety objectives in future.

Note:  This approach enables safety expectations to be expressed in terms that are performance based, for example:

• 1.0 bird strike per 1,000 aircraft movements (SPI) with a 50% reduction in five years (SPT).
• Safety committee meetings to be held every month (SPI) but at intervals not greater than 6 weeks (SPT).
  

Acceptable level of safety:  The designated regulator will, in the context of SMS evaluations, consider the acceptability of the safety objectives and activities set by the regulated organisation, including the degree of measurability that has been provided (SPIs/SPTs), and thereby agree the acceptable level of safety.

Here is a link to the complete text of the All-OT Safety Plan. 

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