IATA’s safety strategy is based on its Six-point Safety Program, developed in close collaboration with IATA’s member airlines and strategic partners with a focus on areas affecting operational safety like:

• Flight and cabin operations
• Ground handling
• Air traffic management
• Cargo handling

The corner stone of our approach to enhancing aviation safety is the IATA Operational Safety Audit ( IOSA), an internationally recognized program that is implemented consistently throughout the industry.

Another approach to enhancing safety is the newly implemented IATA Safety Audit for Ground Operations ( ISAGO). ISAGO was recently initiated and modelled after the successful IOSA program.

Global Safety Information Center (GSIC)

GSIC was created to enable IATA member airlines and other authorized users to access multiple sources of industry safety data. The current sources of the data include:

• IATA Safety Report
• IATA Safety Trend Evaluation Analysis & Data Exchange System (STEADES)
• Flight Data Analysis Exchange (FDX)
• IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA)

For more information, contact gsic@iata.org.

Stay tuned for the new Safety Management Systems (SMS) workshop

The SMS workshop will focus on the simplicity of implementing SMS in an organization that already uses Quality Management System principles (like IOSA). More information will come soon!

Runway Excursion Risk Reduction (RERR) toolkit

IATA and the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) have released the first edition of the Runway Excursion Risk Reduction toolkit. The RERR toolkit provides an in depth analysis of runway excursion accident data and comprehensive set of reference materials for the prevention and mitigation of runway excursion accidents.

Get a copy of the Runway Excursion Risk Reduction toolkit.