Aviation safety improvement initiative

Aviation safety improvement initiative

The Aviation Safety Improvement Initiatives are aviation safety partnership between Regulators, manufacturers, operators and professional unions, research organisations, international organisations to further enhance safety.

The major Safety initiatives worldwide are:
*Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) in the US,

*European Strategic Safety Initiative (ESSI) in Europe.

Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST)

The Commercial Aviation Safety Team was founded in 1998 with a goal to reduce the commercial aviation fatality rate in the United States by 80 percent by 2007. By 2007 [http://www.cast-safety.org/global.cfm CAST ] was able to report that by implementing safety enhancements, the fatality rate of commercial air travel in the United States was reduced by 83 percent.

European Strategic Safety Initiative (ESSI)

The European Strategic Safety Initiative ( [http://www.easa.europa.eu/essi/ ESSI ] ) is an aviation safety partnership between EASA, other regulators and the industry. The initiative’s objective is to further enhance safety for citizens in Europe and worldwide through safety analysis, implementation of cost effective action plans, and coordination with other safety initiatives worldwide. Participants are drawn from the EASA Member States, the ECAC countries, manufacturers, operators and professional unions, research organisations, the FAA and international organisations such as EUROCONTROL and ICAO.

ESSI was launched by EASA as a ten year programme on 28 June 2006 and has three components:
* ECAST: European Commercial Aviation Safety Team

* EHEST: European Helicopter Safety Team

* EGAST: European General Aviation Safety Team

The European Commercial Aviation Safety Team (ECAST)

ECAST addresses large aircraft operations. It was launched in October 2006 by the team that created the ESSI. ECAST is in Europe the equivalent of CAST in the US. ECAST aims at further enhancing commercial aviation safety in Europe, and for European citizen worldwide.

The European Helicopter Safety Team (EHEST)

EHEST features representatives of manufacturers, operators, research organisations, regulators, accident investigators and military from across Europe.EHEST is also the European component of the International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST). The IHST was established in the US in 2006 with the goal of achieving 80% reduction of the accident rate by 2016. To address the specificities of the safety of helicopter operations in Europe, the European members of the IHST have established EHEST in November 2006.The European Helicopter Safety Analysis Team (EHSAT) is the safety team of EHEST. EHSAT has been formed with the purpose of developing a process for analysis of European helicopter accidents and then the performance of the analysis. To tackle the variety of languages used in accident reports and optimise the use of resources, EHSAT has set up seven regional analysis teams across Europe, with the objective of covering more than 89% of the European fleet in 2007. Consolidation of results is performed by EHSAT with the support of EASA.

The European General Aviation Safety Team (EGAST)

In Europe, like in other regions of the world, General Aviation is a dispersed community. Air sports and recreational aviation embrace a wide spectrum of airborne activities, ranging from powered flying, ballooning and gliding to newly-invented activities such as sky-surfing, micro light flying and paragliding.EGAST build on the national general aviation initiatives in Europe and create a forum for sharing safety data and best practices in Europe.

Other Safety improvement Initiatives in the world

*Africa African Safety Enhancement Team (ASET)

*COSCAP Bangul Accord Group

*COSCAP Communate Economique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC)

*COSCAP Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA)

*Asia/Pacific Cooperative Development of Operational Safety and Continuing Airworthiness Program (COSCAP).
*Central/South America Pan American Aviation Safety Team (PAAST)

*Middle East COSCAP Gulf States Russia COSCAP Commonwealth of Independent States

ee also

* EASA
* FAA
* ICAO
* Civil Aviation Authority

External links

* [http://www.easa.europa.eu/essi/ ESSI Website]
* [http://www.cast-safety.org/global.cfm CAST Website]
* [http://easa.europa.eu/essi/webapp/essi/www/index.php?page=egast&lang= EGAST Website]


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