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Civil Aviation FLight 2010 Practising the Art of the Possible

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Overview

  • Current Perspectives
  • Evolving Directions
  • Key Results
  • Mission
  • Definition of Safety
  • Goals
  • Partnering
  • Challenges
  • The Next Five Years
  • Beyond 2010

 

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Current Perspectives

  • Review & amend regulations, policies
  • Contribute to healthy, competitive, safe, secure & sustainable transportation system
  • Regulations focused on safety results
  • Fewer regulatory interventions
  • Flexibility in achieving compliance

 

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Current Perspectives

  • Delegation to achieve cost effective safety performance
  • Delegation promotes shared commitment for safety performance
  • Civil Aviation retains ultimate responsibility for oversight

 

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Current Perspectives

  • Delegation
    • helps us achieve cost effective safety performance
    • promotes shared commitment for safety performance
  • Civil Aviation retains ultimate accountability for oversight
  • Regulatory partnerships benefit industry

 

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Evolving Directions

  • FLIGHT 2005
    • Safety Focus
    • New way to manage risks
    • Build on safety culture
    • Introduce concepts of SMS
  • FLIGHT 2010
    • Business of managing risks
    • A systems environment
    • Transparent processes
    • Clear lines of accountability
    • Implementation of SMS - externally
    • Implementation of IMS - internally
    • Organizational change - a reporting culture

 

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Key Results

  • Continued Improvement on the high level of aviation safety in Canada
  • A high level of Public Confidence in our Civil Aviation program

 

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Modified Mission

  • To develop and administer policies and regulations for the safest civil aviation system for Canada and Canadians using a systems approach to managing risks.

 

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Safety

  • The condition where risks are managed to acceptable levels.

 

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Intermediate Outcomes = Goals

  • Develop a safety culture throughout aviation in Canada (helicopter safety record?)
  • Trust and confidence of stakeholders in the Civil Aviation Program
  • Alignment of expectations for Civil Aviation andstakeholders
  • Compliance with regulatory requirements

 

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Safety Culture

GOAL: Commitment to strong safety culture

OBJECTIVES:

Implement SMS
Assist in transition to SMS
Engage associations in SMS
Create a proactive safety culture
Align IMS & SMS practices
Build constructive relationships

 

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Trust & Confidence

GOAL: Stakeholder trust & confidence in Civil Aviation's program

OBJECTIVES:

Optimize delegation & its oversight
Realign interrelated activities in context of SMS
Continually improve program (IMS)
Integrate risk management & performance measurement
Revitalize recruitment, competency & learning program
Redesign & integrate CA program activities


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Manage Expectations

GOAL: Alignment of Civil Aviation & stakeholder expectations

OBJECTIVES:

Optimize service delivery based on available resources
Support ICAO & North American trilateral
Harmonize with ICAO & other civil aviation authorities
Acceptance of Civil Aviation Documents & products abroad
Reconcile safety & sustainable transportation requirements
Create proactive safety culture internally
Strengthen risk based decision making/resource allocation
Move to e-delivery
Increase diversity of workforce

 

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Regulatory Requirements

GOAL: Compliance with regulatory requirements

OBJECTIVES:

Continue development of “smart” regulations
Complete SMS regulatory framework
Implement of Public Service Modernization Act
Integrate federal policies (IMS accountability framework)


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Overview of Priorities

Overview of Priorities


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Partnering

  • You can have a role in developing a positive safety culture
    • Encourage and apply the essentials of SMS by incorporation into your actions and by encouraging a safety culture among your management teams
    • Providing safety services to members (risk assessments, root cause analysis {HOF}, corrective actions, etc)
    • Associations becoming active partners to whom we can delegate activities

 

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Challenges

  • Canadian Business Aviation Association-style delegation depends on proof of strong safety culture (profit-motive)
  • Creation of a non-adversarial relationship (partnership for safety)

 

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The Next Five Years

  • Strengthen safety oversight framework
  • Targeted interventions
  • Observable & measurable results
  • Maximum level of delegation
  • Flexibility to meet safety standards
  • Performance based regulations

 

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Beyond 2010

  • Robust Safety Culture
  • Public & regulator confidence
  • Less regulatory intervention
  • Further delegation
  • Self-managed regulation
  • Risk based oversight programs
  • More association involvement
  • Effective performance based regulations
  • Flexibility & operating efficiencies
  • “Safer skies”

 


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