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Raising the Safety Bar Globally: Setting Priorities for Scarce Resources

Raising the Safety Bar Globally: Setting Priorities for Scarce Resources. Bob Robeson Vice President, Civil Aviation Aerospace Industries Association. Raising the Safety Bar Globally: Is This Trip Really Necessary?. Raising the safety bar is necessary …

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Raising the Safety Bar Globally: Setting Priorities for Scarce Resources

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  1. Raising the Safety Bar Globally: Setting Priorities for Scarce Resources Bob Robeson Vice President, Civil Aviation Aerospace Industries Association

  2. Raising the Safety Bar Globally:Is This Trip Really Necessary? • Raising the safety bar is necessary … • But it does not automatically follow that every proposal for a means to raise that bar has merit. • How should we focus our efforts?

  3. A Little History Lesson • Why FAR/JAR Harmonization? • Aviation safety levels in Europe and North America are equivalent • The safety of a product certified to FAR, JAR or both codes is the same • Certifying to both codes increases cost with no measurable effect on safety of the product • Harmonization was intended to reduce certification cost while maintaining an acceptable level of safety • The Harmonization effort turned out to be much more resource intensive than anyone anticipated

  4. A Little History Lesson • FAR/JAR Harmonization: where are we now? • Parts 23, 27, 29, essentially harmonized • Part 33/JAR E recognized as equivalent • Part 25 effort will be reoriented to a critical few items • Method has been developed to set priorities for future rulemaking • It is time to redirect resources currently devoted to pure harmonization

  5. Economics 101 • Resources are finite • What determines the amount of resources available to improve aviation safety? • 1. the willingness of the traveler to pay for the ticket; • 2. the willingness of the shipper to pay to put cargo on board; 3. the willingness of the taxpayer to fund FAA, JAA, NASA, etc. • Since resources are finite, any allocation of resources to a sub-optimal safety enhancement diverts resources from more effective enhancements. • Such a misallocation of resources reduces the level of safety achievable through the investment of available resources

  6. Allocating Finite Resources to Improve Safety • How should we allocate these resources? • The foremost commitment should be that we will be guided by data. • Basic guidance should come from objective analytical approaches such as those developed under the Commercial Aviation Safety Team. • It is OK to have differing opinions based on competent objective analysis of available data!! It is not OK to be diverted to sub-optimal safety initiatives based on hunches or pet projects. • Industry understands the political imperative of public perception, but we must be able to address public concerns and political pressure in ways that enable us to maintain our focus on the safety initiatives with the highest payoff

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