1. Requirements - background
SAFETY Management
Requirements - background
Baku Azerbaijan, 5 – 7 April 2006
Michel Béland ICAO Regional Safety Officer Europe and North Atlantic

2. Overview ICAO Background and Assembly Resolutions
ATS Safety management
Harmonization of safety provisions
Examples of implementation (ATS)
ICAO guidance material
Conclusion
Not meant to be a historical perspective. Just to describe how ICAO came upon SM programme.
With the understanding that all of us have always been involved in promoting safety.
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3. ICAO
the primary objective of the Organization continues to be to improve the safety of international civil aviation worldwide
Assembly Resolutions
Annexes
Guidance material
Regional Air navigation Plans
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4. Background – Assembly Resolutions
ICAO Global Aviation Safety Plan
A35-14
Consolidated Statement of continuing ICAO policies and associated practices related specifically to air navigation
APPENDIX – X The provision of air traffic services
A35-17
Protecting information from safety data collection and processing systems in order to improve aviation safety
A33-16
10. Urges all Contracting States to examine and, if necessary, adjust their laws, regulations, and policies to achieve the proper balance among the various elements of accident prevention efforts (e.g. regulation, enforcement, training, and incentives to encourage voluntary reporting) and to encourage increased voluntary reporting of events that could affect aviation safety, and instructs ICAO to develop appropriate policies and guidance in this respect;
11. Urges all Contracting States to ensure that their aircraft operators, providers of air navigation services and equipment, and maintenance organizations have the necessary procedures and policies for voluntary reporting of events that could affect aviation safety;
A35-14
Whereas Annex 11 to the Convention requires Contracting States to ensure that ATS safety management programmes are established;
The Assembly resolves that:
…3. States should ensure that safety management programmes are introduced by the relevant air traffic services provider in all airspaces and at all aerodromes where air traffic services are provided.
A35-17
Recognizing that the protection of safety information from inappropriate use is essential to ensure the continued availability of all relevant safety information, to enable proper and timely preventive actions to be taken;
Concerned by a trend for safety information to be used for disciplinary and enforcement actions, and to be admitted as evidence in judicial proceedings;
Mindful that the use of safety information for other than safety-related purposes may inhibit the provision of such information, with an adverse effect on aviation safety;
Considering that a balance needs to be struck between the need for the protection of safety information and the need for the proper administration of justice;
Noting that existing international laws, as well as national laws and regulations in many States may not adequately address the manner in which safety information is protected from inappropriate use;
2. Urges all Contracting States to examine their existing legislation and adjust as necessary, or enact laws and regulations to protect information from all relevant safety data collection and processing systems based, to the extent possible, on the legal guidance developed by ICAO;
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5. ATS Safety Management Requirements
Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPS) for Safety Management in ATS introduced in Amendment 40 to Annex 11
Complementary procedures introduced in Amendment 1 to the fourteenth edition of the PANS-ATM (Doc 4444)
This was ICAO’s first venture into safety management.
First placed in Annex 11 for ATS with an implementation date of November 2003.
With the expanded SOA programme coming along, this date became urgent for States.
This was a good start and it probably caused States to get to work, however, in hind sight 2003 was probably a bit early
especially considering that we didn’t have the guidance material available and that it was a rather new concept
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6. Harmonization of safety provisions
Annex 6 – Operation of Aircraft, Parts I and III
Annex 11 – Air Traffic Services
Annex 14 – Aerodromes
Harmonized provisions require
Implementation of SMS
Clear definition of safety responsibilities
State (regulator) Operator (Airline, ATS provider, aerodrome operator)
Reference to guidance material
New harmonized provisions were adopted by Council to harmonize Annex provisions in relation to Safety Management Systems
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7. New harmonized provisions
Annexes 6, 11 and 14
Regulator responsibilities
State shall establish a safety programme, in order to achieve an acceptable level of safety in (Annex specific):
the operation of aircraft
the maintenance of aircraft
the provision of ATS
aerodrome operations
The acceptable level of safety to be achieved shall be established by the State(s) concerned
Through Regional Air Navigation Agreements
Annex specific
Annex 11
The acceptable level of safety and safety objectives applicable to the provision of ATS within airspaces and at aerodromes shall be established by the State or States concerned. When applicable, safety levels and safety objectives shall be established on the basis of regional air navigation agreements.
Note.— The acceptable level of safety may be specified in qualitative or quantitative terms. The following are examples of measures which could be used to express the acceptable level of safety:
a) a maximum probability of an undesirable event, such as collision, loss of separation or runway incursion;
b) a maximum number of accidents per flight hour;
c) a maximum number of incidents per aircraft movement;
d) a maximum number of valid short-term conflict alerts (STCA) per aircraft movement.
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8. New harmonized provisions
Regulated entities
States shall require that the (operator/maintenance organization/air traffic services provider/certified aerodrome operator) implement a safety management system approved by the (State/State of the operator) that, inter alia:
identifies actual potential safety hazards
provides for continuous monitoring and regular assessment of the level of safety achieved.
ensures that remedial action necessary to maintain an acceptable level of safety is implemented
Annex specific
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9. New harmonized provisions
Regulated entities
An approved safety management system shall clearly define lines of safety accountability throughout the (operator/maintenance organization/air traffic services provider/certified aerodrome operator), including a direct accountability for safety on the part of senior management
Strong emphasis on management accountability.
This was urged by Eurocontrol, Australia and others who were already deeply involved in SMS
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10. Annex 13 Use of safety information Difficult for some States
New amendment adopted
Additional emphasis on protection of information
New legal guidance
Principles
Flexibility of adaptation
For States to enact regulations
The protection of safety information from inappropriate use is essential to ensure its continued availability, since the use of safety information for other than safety-related purposes may inhibit the future availability of such information, with an adverse effect on safety.
The 35th Assembly of ICAO recognized that existing national laws and regulations in many States may not adequately address the manner in which safety information is protected from inappropriate use.
The ICAO Council has just adopted amendment 11 to Annex 13. the Amendment expands the provisions related to the protection of safety-related information.
The legal guidance will assist States to enact national laws and regulations to protect information gathered.
The legal guidance developed takes the form of a series of principles that can be adapted to meet the needs of individual States, and encompasses all relevant safety data collection and processing systems, including certain accident and incident records.
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11. Examples of ATS safety management
NATS introduced formal SM in 1991
EUROCONTROL
Guidance material published in 1999
ESARR 3 published in 2000
ECAC supports Eurocontrol’s initiative
The airline industry always had prescriptive and managed safety programmes, primarily because they were somewhat autonomous and their business plans required it.
We never really had a managed approach to safety for ATS because the providers were the governments and nobody was overseeing them. Safety was addressed in different ways.
In the UK, following a series of accidents in all kinds of industries, the notion of managing safety was born
That found its way to Eurocontrol
ICAO picked up on it at the end of the 90s for application in ATM
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12. ICAO Safety Management Manual (SMM)
1984 ICAO Accident Prevention Manual (APM)
2004 Draft SMS manual for ATM
Draft SMS manual for Aerodromes
Revised APM (second edition)
2005 New ICAO Safety Management Manual
This is a brief overview of the guidance material developed by ICAO first in relation to accident prevention in 1984 and with the current Safety management manual published in 2005 in draft with the final version is now available from document sales in Montreal.
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13. Why an ICAO Manual Pressure on ICAO to publish appropriate guidance
(Annexes 6, 11, 13, 14)
Three large draft manuals produced around same time.
ICAO would have difficulties in producing the three manuals in a timely fashion.
All three dealt with SAFETY, albeit from different perspectives.
Combined into one manual (SMM)
As to the Accident Prevention Manual, it was finished early last year and is already available for free on the ICAO's web ( under the title  ICAO Accident Prevention Programme.
How to get there:
    1) go to the upper right corner and click on Site Index;
    2) click on Accident Prevention and Investigation Section;
    3) go to Manual and Circulars on the left pane; open the very last item ICAO Accident Prevention Programme
A lot of  that Programme is also part of the new ICAO Safety Management Manual (SMM, Doc 9859). The ICAO SMM consolidates four manuals into one: the ATM Safety Management Manual, the AGA Safety Management Manual, the OPS Safety Management Manual and the revised Accident Prevention Manual.
In order to have the SMM as slim as practicable, we had to give up on many chapters of the revised Accident Prevention Manual. As it was felt the aviation community would benefit from the whole manual, we decided to call it Accident Prevention Programme and made it available for free on the web.
The old (but still in force) Accident Prevention Manual (Doc 9422) should be disbanded in the near future.
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14. Safety Management Manual
No single right way to address safety
No one size that fits all (State, operator, individual)
Manual takes a generic approach
Include both approaches to safety (SMS and traditional)
Users can take as much or as little as their circumstances permit
Safety Management Manual
First edition
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15. Conclusion
Harmonization of ICAO Safety provisions in Annex 11, 14 and 6.
Safety management systems
Identify and mitigate risk
Safety
New ICAO Safety management manual
Your Contribution to Safety
Implement safety management systems
Foster safety culture
Report safety occurrences
Enforce regulations
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16. Requirements - background
SAFETY Management
Requirements - background
Baku Azerbaijan, 5 – 7 April 2006
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Thank you
Michel Béland ICAO Regional Safety Officer Europe and North Atlantic