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changing. “In the old days as far as safety was considered,
EUROCONTROL played a pioneering role, but now,
increasingly, the European Commission is taking over in the
regulation area and a number of service providers themselves
have good safety management systems. We still have a lot of
expertise in-house. We should play a major role as far as
safety is concerned in the SES definition phase, but there are
many players involved in Sesar. EUROCONTROL can provide
the safety glue which binds all of the stakeholders together.”
ATM AND AIRPORTS: CHALLENGES FOR EUROPE
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ANSP’S VIEWS ON SAFETY
AND RISK MANAGEMENT
Anne Paylor examines how Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs)
are addressing safety and risk management in light of changes to
regulations as part of the Single European Sky initiative
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he Single European Sky (SES) is bringing significant
changes to the way air navigation service providers are
regulated, and one of its key pillars is the clear
separation of safety regulation from service provision. The
concept is both a cornerstone of and a pre-requisite for
greater commercialisation in the provision of air navigation
services. It is also one of the building blocks that will facilitate
cross-border service provision, ensuring that safety standards
can be assured by each Member State regardless of who is
providing the services.
Safety is fundamental to air traffic management: it is its
raison d’être. But with traffic once again increasing at pre-9/11
rates, and forecast to double by 2020, it follows that if the
current accident rate remains the same, the number of aviation
accidents will also double by 2020. With aircraft operating in
more complex operational conditions in more congested
airspace, some experts predict that this could mean a fatal air
accident occurring every seven to ten days. Although air traffic
would still be proportionately safer than any other form of
transport, such concentrated negative press would inevitably
damage public perceptions of air safety.
Despite the rapid and constant growth in air traffic, overall
aviation accident rates have been reduced by more than 50
per cent during the past 20 years, and the long-term goal in
Europe is to reduce accident rates by 80 per cent by 2020
through technology, operational and regulatory initiatives, and
measures to decrease human error.
In a bid to address the European disparities, the European
Commission drafted a regulation in 2004 laying down common
requirements for the provision of air navigation services, aimed
at ensuring that a common level of safety management is
implemented throughout the European Community.
The draft regulation defines safety management as “that
function of air traffic services provision which ensures that all
safety risks have been identified, assessed and satisfactorily
mitigated, and that a formal and systematic approach to
safety management will maximise safety benefits in a visible
and traceable way.”
It requires every ANSP, as an integral part of the
management of its services, to have a safety management
system (SMS) that:
• ensures a formalised, explicit and pro-active approach to
systematic safety management in meeting its safety
T responsibilities within the provision of its services;
• operates in respect of all its services and the supporting
arrangements under its managerial control; and includes,
as its foundation, a statement of safety policy defining
the organisation’s fundamental approach to managing
safety (safety management);
• ensures that everyone involved in the safety aspects of
the provision of air traffic services has an individual safety
responsibility for their own actions, that managers are
responsible for the safety performance of their respective
departments or divisions and that the top management
of the provider carries an overall safety responsibility
(safety responsibility);
• ensures that the achievement of satisfactory safety in air
traffic services shall be afforded the highest priority
(safety priority); and
• ensures that while providing air traffic services, the
principal safety objective is to minimise its contribution to
the risk of an aircraft accident as far as reasonably
practicable (safety objective).
Acceptance of the Common Requirements (CRs) by the
ANSP community has been generally positive, because they
are at least a first step towards creating a level playing field.
But there are concerns among the more mature and
commercialised providers that the CRs have the potential to
　
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