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What We Do? |
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The fundamental priority in aviation! |
Despite all difficulties that civil aviation has experienced over the last few years, traffic still grows.
The latests forecasts predict a doubling of the flight in Europe by 2020. The safety objective of the Eurocontrol ATM 2000+ Strategy is to "Improve safety levels by ensuring that the numbers of ATM induced accidents and serious or risk bearing incidents do not increase and, where possible, decrease". This is the foundation for all work done in safety management and safety regulation. |
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Safety Management and Safety Regulation |
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Safety Regulation is the process for establishing, overseeing and enforcing common safety levels in the public interest. Implementation of the latter is done by regulatory functions such as national regulators, the EUROCONTROL Safety Regulation Commission, the European Commission and ICAO
Safety Regulation does not take away the responsibility for Air Navigation Service Providers ( ANSPs ) to ensure the provision of safe services and products. The process for doing the latter in a systematic and structured way is called Safety Management.
Within Europe, the trend to separate formally the organisations who deal with safety management on one hand from those who deal with safety regulation on the other hand, is close to completion. Most EUROCONTROL Member States as well as many ECAC States have an ANSP organisation as well as an independent safety regulation function.
The Federal Aviation Administration in the USA have adopted a similar model to distinguish formally between safety regulation and safety management. ICAO also sees the need to promote this type of separation model on a global basis.
For further information, visit the following websites:
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EUROCONTROL Safety Regulation Commission Website |
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ICAO Website |
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The Federal Aviation Administration Website |
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ATM Safety Management in the EUROCONTROL Agency |
Harmonisation of safety management principles, safety improvement initiatives, sharing best safety practices, learning from incidents, and thereby improving the overall safety performance of ANSPs in a Pan-European airspace, is the role of the safety management domain in the EUROCONTROL Agency.
The safety management domain covers the full spectrum starting from safety R&D, over longer term safety strategies up to short term implementation programmes and support to ANSPs.
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Human Factors is the name for the inter-disciplinary activities concerned with optimising the relationships between people, activities and equipment. Specifically, it is about the application of specialised knowledge about human psychology, physiology and anatomy to the design of the things we use and the design of the places in which we use them, to improve their usability, effectiveness and safety.
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Manpower delivers performance-orientated Human Resources Management products and services that help people, at all levels in Air Traffic Management Organisations, to do a better job by developing best practice concepts, guidelines, tools and job marketing in the areas of Manpower Planning , Marketing Recruitment & Selection and Career Development.
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The objective is to provide ANS Service Providers for all ATM areas training material, methods and tools to enable a common minimum standard of training which will evolve to meet the future introduction of system changes and will enable the implementation of regulatory requirements for ATM services personnel licensing.
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This area of expertise is to produce a harmonised Air Traffic Controller (ATCO) licence for ECAC States. The licensing scheme is explained and described in detail in the licensing manual entitled "European Manual of Personnel Licensing - Air Traffic Controllers".
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Safety Management Domain, is dedicated to the strategic long-term planning of the overall safety performance of the ATM system and the aviation system in general.
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ATM Security is concerned with those threats that are aimed at the ATM System directly, such as attacks on ATM assets, or where ATM plays a key role in the prevention or response to threats aimed at other parts of the aviation system (or national and international assets of high value) and limiting their effects on the overall Network.
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