Safety Culture in Air Traffic Management A White Paper December 2008
Safety Culture in air traffiC ManageMent a White Paper
December 2008 EUROCONTROL / FAA ACTION PLAN 15 SAFETY
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FOREWORD
The EUROCONTROL / FAA Action Plan 15 on Safety Research is aimed at advancing Safety concepts and practices in Air Traffic Management, via the sharing of expertise from its membership. It has three main axes: understanding system safety, developing new approaches to assess and improve safety, and disseminating its results into the industry. AP15 came into existence in 2003 and its current terms of reference run until 2010. Safety Culture is one of its principal activities in the 2007-2010 timeframe.
AP 15 Terms of Reference
Understand safety & Hazards
Improve Safety in ATM
Develop/Adapt Safety Methods Raise Awareness of Methods
AP15 works at the frontier of Safety, exploring new safety concepts and translating them into useful tools
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EUROCONTROL - Barry Kirwan [Co-chair], Eric Perrin, Herman Nijhuis FAA - Joan Devine [Co-chair], Jim Daum, Dino Piccione, Steve French, Alfredo Colon NATS (UK) – David Bush DFS (Germany) – Joerg Leonhardt & Joachim Vogt ENAV (Italy) – Alessandro Boschiero DSNA (France) – Sebastien Barjou NLR (the Netherlands) – Henk Blom AVINOR (Norway) – Anne Chavez LFV (Sweden) – Billy Josefsson
For further information: barry.kirwan@eurocontrol.int joan.devine@faa.gov Additional thanks to Marinella Leone, Tony Licu, Eve Grace-Kelly, Kathryn Mearns, Chris Johnson, Nigel Makins, Anna Wennerberg, Amel Sedaoui, Jean Paries, Rachael Gordon and Richard Kennedy.
SAFETY CULTURE IN AIR TRAFFIC mANAgEmENT WHITE PAPER
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ExECUTIvE SUmmARY
This White Paper is built on the collaboration between EUROCONTROL, the FAA, and a number of ANSPs with a common area of interest, namely Safety Culture. Safety Culture is the way safety is perceived, valued and