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Safety in Aviation North America

From: 30 Oct, 2014 until: 31 Oct, 2014

Location: Washington D.C., United States


Event Summary

This year, we will move this forum to Washington D.C. and on 30th and 31st October, we look forward to welcoming key players from North America to debate, assess, explore, share and benefit from safety strategies and the experience of their peers. To prioritise and promote safety, all players must be mobilised and engaged. The theme of this forum will be what inspires safety professionals as key topics, as chosen by the industry, are explored and assessed during the 1.5 days of critical debate.

Location

Venue: TBC

Address: TBC

Full details

Day 1 - Thursday 30 October 2014

8:00

Registration and refreshments

8:30

Opening remarks from the Chair

George Paul, Director Technical Services, NACA
8:40

A review and update on safety in North America

  • Establishing what ideas, concepts, processes can help the industry move forward
  • What can provide the impetus to help improve systems?
  • Reviewing how to integrate and grow safety systems to make them work and get results
  • What inspires safety professionals? Where does passion come from?
9:20

Airline Keynote: Strengthening and refocusing SMS

  • Innovative and emerging trends in safety management: Are there creative ways to achieve divisional buy-in?
  • ‘Everything is competency’: Why is competency the next step?
  • Status of SMS implementation and lessons learned so far: What tools allow SMS develop?
  • Prioritising safety departments: How do we move safety forward and enhance operational safety?
Christopher Sangiovanni, Director Corporate Safety, Jetblue
10:00

Morning refreshments

10:30

PANEL DISCUSSION: Designing safety systems to make people part of the process

  • Changing employee minds and highlighting the risks of a lack of engagement
  • Championing SMS to help it stand the test of time: Have you developed future proofed strategies?
  • Converting SMS theory to real practice
  • Convincing your organisation of the benefits of SMS to build unity
  • Integrating occupational safety and health into SMS programmes: How can they be more closely related?
Armando Martinez, Senior Director of Safety and Systems, Miami Air
Kasia Szwed-Carlson, SMS Manager, Sun Country Airlines
11:15

Assessing current flight data monitoring practice and identification of hazards and risks

  • Using data to reduce risk: Optimising your flight data management
  • Learning from predictive risks and performance measurements to become more proactive
  • Trend analysis and application: Ensuring and managing effective quality assurance in flight operations
12:00

WBAT: Providing a global solution for your SMS initiatives

  • WBAT design and capabilities supporting the pillars of SMS
  • Accountability from top management down to your line employees
  • Confidential employee reporting for all 
  • Automated features to keep your data current: Flight Schedule Loads & Employee Loads
  • Data Sharing Initiatives: Being part of a safety outreach, right from WBAT
Nicky Armour, WBAT Project Lead, UTRS
12:30

Lunch

13:30

Spotlight on technology: Maximising safety through innovation

If you are a leading provider at the cutting edge of safety technology, please contact Stacey Ludlow (stacey.ludlow@rbi.co.uk) for information on how to participate.

  • A showcase of the latest developments in aviation and safety technology
  • Explaining the benefits of these new technologies
  • Exploring technology in action - How are they improving safety levels? How have they been received
15:00

Afternoon refreshments

15:30

What do safety professionals need to do to manage fatigue levels and mitigate risk?

  • Reviewing high level strategic concepts: Competency standards and competency verification
  • Addressing the regulator angle: How are the regulators tackling it?
  • What real risks are being realised when FRMS is not managed? FRMS as a part of your SMS
16:00

Managing and mitigating risk: What is on your checklist?

  • Incorporating human factors in all operations
  • Hazard identification: Developing systems and processes
  • How far have other airlines come? What tools are they using?
  • Strengthening and increasing the understanding of raw data
John deGiovanni, MD Corporate Ground Safety, United Airlines
16:30

How to prevent the Human Error Accident

Daniel McCune, Associate VP for Safety, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
17:00

End of day one

   

Day 2 - Friday 31 October 2014

8:30

Opening remarks from the Chair

8:40

Closing the gap between regulators and operators

  • Is there a perceived disparity between science and what regulations are prioritising and committing to?
  • Regulatory compliance with the different authorities: Where is the power?
  • What support do regulators offer to safety departments to manage workload? How can work stress impact reporting culture and turnaround when incidents occur?
9:20

Recognising the inherent threats of mismanaging automation: Defining, developing and retaining skills

  • Are pilots now ‘automation managers’? How have duties for crew members changed under emergency operations?
  • Reviewing inappropriate handling, control inputs and crew co-ordination
  • Is there a reliance on systems and reluctance to intervene?
10:00

Morning refreshments

10:30

Mitigating safety and operational risks: Looking further than the loss of manual flight skills as the reason for accidents

  • Highly integrated nature of current flight decks: What confusion and error can this cause? Addressing ‘task saturation’
  • Can manual flight practice conflict with SMS?
  • Providing pilots with the opportunity to refine and practice hand flying and manual skills to be prepared in the event of automation failure
  • What incidents can automation cause? Training to avert preventable problems
Eric Mayett, SVP Flight Safety, Security and Quality, Aeromexico
11:10

Addressing malfunctions for when there are no precise processes in place

  • Effective training for successful flight path management and operational readiness
  • Finding the right systems and processes to identify what needs to be included in education and training
  • Who said automation is a total failure? Comparing what makes it work and how it can fail
11:50

Closing remarks from the Chair

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Close of conference


The organisers reserve the right to change the programme, speakers or venue should circumstances require. 

Event contact: emma.donaldson@rbi.co.uk

URL: http://www.flightglobalevents.com/safetynorthamerica2014

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