You are here: Home » Areas of Activity » Safety & Security » Newsletter » Flight Bag - October 2009 » Safety

Global Safety Information Center (GSIC) at the OPC

The GSIC is a new website that will contain safety information from different IATA sources to be shared with airlines. It will be released in early 2010.

Security Information in GSIC

A security component will be added to GSIC in 2010. It will consolidate the current security and facilitation trackers onto one platform and introduce an array of documents, tool-kits as well as security and facilitation updates necessary for airline operations.

Users of this one-stop, interactive center will be able to customize their own desktop views with individually chosen information; conduct queries for all the data sources and update the data provided, thereby reducing the time that is presently taken for airlines and industry partners to find and analyze this information. Access will be carefully controlled for sensitive information.

STEADES Participation Reaches 100 Airlines

Lufthansa is the 100th airline to join STEADES! 
STEADES has seen tremendous growth these past years from 41 airlines in 2007 to 100 airlines in 2009. Each additional airline that contributes data to STEADES enables IATA to gain better insight and airlines to gain an improved tool for measuring safety performance.

Airlines use STEADES analyses within their Safety Management Systems to drive their safety committee meetings, anticipate issues at airports of new routes and benchmark their safety performance against others.  Participation is free of charge.

More information on STEADES

IOSA Trains Accredited Audit Organizations

IATA hosted the second IOSA Quality Forum in Montreal in September. Representatives from all eight IOSA Accredited Audit Organizations (AOs) were present, as well as representatives from some of the IOSA Standards Task Forces.

Results:

• Clarification of the standard development and maintenance process
• Standards improvement.
• Improvement of  the IATA quality control processes
• Need for greater focus on implementation   

Current IOSA Registry

IOSA program status as of the end of September:

ISAGO Audits Update

By the end of October, the total number of ISAGO audits completed for 2009 reached 73. About 45% of these audits were corporate audits, demonstrating the extent of program penetration within the ground handling industry.

In addition, a growing number of regulatory agencies and airport authorities around the world are expressing their formal support to the program. Recently, IATA received letters of support from Transport Canada, Airport Company South Africa (ACSA) and Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department.

ISAGO Registry

By end of September, a total of 20 providers are already on the ISAGO Registry at 20 different locations. Discover the newly redesigned ISAGO Registry.

ISAGO Pool Welcomes Two New Members

Air France and British Midland Airways (BMI) have recently joined the program, increasing the number of ISAGO Pool members to 38. The Pool consists of 195 ISAGO qualified auditors.

OPC Conclusion

The OPC agreed that ISAGO needs to work on the development and finalization of the IATA Ground Operations Manual.