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AGASAction Group for ATM Safety

• Senior professionals in ATM safety
• Safety Managers, Regulators, Airspace Users
• Wholesale stocktake of safety
  strategies,processes and procedures
• 4 Specific Working Groups HF
• Safety overview study
• Action Plan for ATM Safety

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WORKING GROUPS

• WG1 Implementation of Regulations
• Drafting of ESARRs
• Transposition of ESARRs into national law
• Adequate resources for the regulator
• Awareness
• SRC monitoring.
• WG2 Reporting
• Allocate the resources necessary to implement
  harmonised safety occurrence data collection,
  analysis, sharing and dissemination mechanism
• Implement the principles of just culture and
  initiate an awareness and education campaign.

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WORKING GROUPS

• WG3 ACAS
• ACAS documentation reviewed
• possibility of down-linking RA information to AWP
  to be investigated
• Further technical aspects under consideration.
• WG4 Ground Based Safety Nets
• Accelerated action to install STCA ECAC-wide
• the need for guidance for the management of
  technical outages
• a uniform solution for last-resort voice comms
  is being investigated.

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AGAS RECOMMENDATIONS TO PC

• Early AGAS Recommendations made to PC/15 and
  reported to ACG/18. Current Situation
• EUROCONTROL Commission agreed and the following
  actions in train
• Collection Dissemination of Lessons Learnt
  Data. Pilot exercises will be undertaken during
  2003
• Implementation of STCA. A tailored approach to
  appropriate States is being taken
• Review of ACAS Documentation. The Director
  General has sent a letter to all ECAC DGCAs
  inviting them to ensure provisions are in line
  with ICAO
• Human Resource Arrangements. The Director General
  has sent a letter to all ECAC DGCAs inviting them
  to review their CWP staffing arrangements to
  verify that sufficient arrangements are in place.

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AGAS SAFETY OVERVIEW STUDY
AMONGST 41 ECAC STATES
Regulators
ANSPs
33 (83)
37 (90)
Questionnaires returned
27 (66)
26 (64)
Interviews conducted
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QUESTIONNAIRES RESULTSMATURITY LEVEL
ConfidentAdopters
WillingDevelopers
UncertainStarters
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PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONSFROM INTERVIEWS

• Shortage of qualified resources for safety
• Need for enhanced leadership for safety
• Expected contributions from EUROCONTROL
• Practical guidance, including guidance for
  customisation to smaller organisations
• Development of harmonised Acceptable Means of
  Compliance to ESARRs
• Specification of competence and training
  requirements for safety experts.

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ACTION PLAN FOR ATM SAFETY IN EUROPESTRATEGIC
AXES

• Enforcement of ESARRs and implementation
  monitoring
• Quantity and quality of resources for safety
  regulators and safety managers (including
  training)
• Raise the awareness level with regard to safety
  issues
• Incident reporting, including the culture and the
  analysis of reports and their dissemination
• ACAS and ACAS awareness and the air/ground status
  information of RAs
• Adequacy and deployment of safety nets
• Runways and runway safety
• Human factors and resourcing, including the
  adequacy of resources
• Need to support RD (with a view to achieving
  medium and long- term solutions).

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LIKELY ACTIONS FOR SRC

• WG1
• Revisit all ESARRs (approved and in draft)
• Improve clarity of structure (mandatory v non)
• Re-draft into EC compliant format
• Review awareness strategy (workshops etc).
• Future direction for SRC Monitoring
• More permanent structure
• From fact finding to auditing

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LIKELY ACTIONS FOR SRC

• WG2
• Address non-responses to ESARR 2
• Establish focal points in ALL States
• Further education/awareness
• Mandate ESARR 2 / AST Training
• Include resourcing aspects in ESARR 2
• Lessons not learned

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LIKELY ACTIONS FOR SRC

• WG3
• Mandate controller training on safety nets
• WG4
• Ground-based safety nets
• Mandate STCA,MSAW,APW
• Controller training included in ESARR 5?
• Status published in AIP
• Approval of normal/degraded operations (ESARR 3?)
• Coordination between Units (ESARR 7?)

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LIKELY ACTIONS FOR SRC

• Human Factors
• Manning levels for normal and degraded operations
  - inclusion in ESARR 5?
• Controller training on the effects of degraded
  operations - inclusion in ESARR 5?
• Procedures for briefing controllers on safety
  effects of degraded operations- inclusion in
  ESARR 7?

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LIKELY ACTIONS FOR SRC

• Safety Overview
• Training of ATM safety regulators
• Provide more guidance in complex areas
• examples in risk assessment
• setting national safety minima
• more practical support material
• Application to small organisations

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WHAT NEXT

• Constructing the Action Plan for ATM Safety
  Regulation
• AGAS 4
• PC 16
• Programme Management Plan for implementation
  of measures
• SRC Work Programme Review

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