Flight Safety Foundation Schedules Safety Seminars in Asia

Next month, the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is kicking off a series of 12 seminars with an event to be held at the Singapore Aviation Academy as part of its Global Safety Information Project (GSIP). The Safety Management Information and Sharing Seminars are part of the U.S.-based independent group’s two-year study of safety data collection and processing systems.

Here in Singapore, the complimentary event is being co-hosted by Singapore Aviation Safety Seminars (SASS) and will be held on March 16. Running alongside it will be a two-day Maintenance and Engineering Safety Seminar on March 14-15 and a Flight Operations Safety Seminar on March 17-18.

Between March and July, other seminars will be held around the Asia Pacific and Latin American regions at locations including Sydney, Santiago, Chile, Tokyo, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia, Jakarta, Indonesia, Panama City, Lima, Peru and New Delhi. FSF vice president Mark Millam, who is in charge of GSIP, said that the group is considering scheduling further workshops in the Philippines, China, Costa Rica and the Caribbean.

Acccording to FSF, the GSIP workshops are intended to investigate the most effective ways to gather safety data and conduct risk assessments both with individual organizations and through wider partnerships in the aviation industry. To prevent future accidents, the industry is transitioning from the knowledge gained from aircraft accidents to the knowledge gained from hazards that are discovered during regular operations. “The next step is to begin to develop tool kits that may be useful as roadmaps for [safety data collection and processing systems] that are so crucial to safety management systems and state safety programs,” commented Millam.