8:00 |
Registration and refreshments
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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15:00 |
Afternoon refreshments
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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
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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
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8:30 |
Opening remarks from the Chair
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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?
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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?
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10:00 |
Morning refreshments
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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
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11:50 |
Closing remarks from the Chair
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12:00 |
Lunch
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13:00 |
Close of conference
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The organisers reserve the right to change the programme, speakers or venue should circumstances require.