Assignment # 1

Aircraft Accident Investigation-I

Course:

BS Aviation Management
Semester 7th

Course instructor:

Wg. Cdr. Imran Ahmad Khan

Submitted by:

Arslan Aslam -9234

BAM

How state safety roadmap helps in reducing air accident rate? The safety of the aviation industry is paramount to its ability to maintain the confidence of the travelling public as it continues to grow and to connect people, communities and nations. Therefore, even a mature safety system must include processes for ongoing improvement. Continuing rapid advances in navigation and aircraft technology and the intense commercial pressures of the aviation industry require the continuing improvement and refinement of our aviation safety systems. International Civil Aviation Organization is continuously trying to improve safety standards in the entire world especially for the contracting states including Australia. ICAO has imposed an order to any contracting state to prepare or plan its SSP (state safety programme-SSP is a programme for the aviation safety of a State.) and SMS (Safety management system) for operators or service providers. Australias State Safety Program plays an important part in identifying, monitoring and maintaining the effectiveness of the various elements of our safety systems. The Program identifies and describes current arrangements and outlines the steps we need to continue to take in order to respond to safety challenges in the future. The Australian State Safety Program has been briefly shown in the figure given below:

The aim of SSP is to view out all those regulations or activities performed by front line personnel to top level persons and upgrade the safety to the acceptable level. It includes planning, developing state saftey policies and objectives. SSP assures the safety in the state, calculates, mitigates and then manages the risk. SSP collects, analyzes and exchanges safety data. SSPs are defined as integrated sets of regulations and activities aimed at improving safety. They include specific safety activities that must be performed by the State, and regulations and directives to support fulfillment of the States responsibilities concerning safe and efficient delivery of aviation activities in the State. An SSP combines the elements of both the prescriptive and performance based approaches to the management of aviation safety and incorporates four key

components: State safety policy and objectives; State safety risk management; State safety assurance; and State safety promotion. By discussing the above mentioned components, the SSP gives us assurance to the states of maintaining safety to an acceptable level which leads to quite reduced risk of incident or accident occurrences. Thus, State Safety Roadmap is a state safety programme for which each contracting state is responsible to develop it and it is very necessary for reducing the rate of air accidents.