Western-Pacific Region (AWP) Runway Safety Plan, FY 2020
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COMMITTED TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING SURFACE SAFETY. Western-Pacific Region (AWP) Runway Safety Plan FY20 2019-2020 RUNWAY SAFETY COUNCIL (RSC) #47 www.faa.gov Executive Summary The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Safety Program (RSP). This cross-organizational top priority is maintaining safety in the National directive establishes policy, assigns responsibility, TABLE Airspace System (NAS). The long-term goal for and delegates authority for ensuring compliance runway safety is to improve safety by decreasing with this order within each organization. The AWP OF CONTENTS FAA Safety Management System (SMS) 4 the number and severity of runway incursions Regional Runway Safety Governance Council (RI), runway excursions (RE) and serious surface (RSGC) is chaired by the Regional Administrator incidents (SI). and composed of the Regional Runway Safety Regional Runway Safety Plan (RRSP) Methodology Program Managers (RRSPM) and executives 6 FAA’s National Runway Safety Plan (NRSP) 2018-2020 or designees from the Airports Division, Flight aligns our strategic priorities with established Safety Standards Service and Air Traffic Organization Risk Management principles. The plan defines how Western Service Area and Western Service Center the FAA, airports, and industry partners collaborate FY20 RRSP Initiatives Directors. Each council member identified and 8 and use data-driven, risk-based decision-making to designated their line of business (LOB) expert enhance the safety of the National Airspace System. representative on the Regional Runway Safety Team (RRST). In response to the agency goal and the NRSP, the APPENDIX E lists the members of Safety Assurance 10 Western-Pacific Region (AWP) has developed the RRST. this Regional Runway Safety Plan (RRSP) to As directed by the RSP, the RRST is tasked with provide a roadmap with added regional emphasis identifying regional priorities and working through Safety Risk Management (SRM) for FY2020. their executive representative to ensure that 12 issues are properly vetted through their respective FAA Order 7050.1B, signed by the FAA LOBs for prior coordination before each RSGC Administrator, prescribes the FAA’s Runway quarterly meeting. 16 Safety Policy 18 Safety Promotion EMILY M. BANUELOS RAQUEL GIRVIN Manager, Runway Safety Program, Western Service Area Regional Administrator, Western-Pacific Region JOE SANTORO CLARK DESING Runway Safety Program Manager, Western-Pacific Region, Director, Western Service Center Western Service Area TIMOTHY W. SHAVER JEFF STEWART Director, Office of Safety Standards, AFS-1 (A) Director, Air Traffic Operations, Western Service Area MARK A. MCCLARDY DAVID W. WASHINO Director, Office of Airports, Western-Pacific Region Director, Technical Operations, Western Service Area 4 Western Pacific Region (AWP) Runway Safety Plan FY20 Western Pacific Region (AWP) Runway Safety Plan FY20 5 FAA Safety Management FY18-FY20 NRSP Objectives System (SMS) SAFETY Identify Operating Hazards ASSURANCE FAA is employing and evolving a Safety The goals for the 2018-2020 NRSP are expected Program Data Management System (SMS), which provides a to continue the efforts and successes put forth Voluntary Safety Reporting formalized and proactive approach to system by the 2015-2017 NRSP: namely to leverage new Remain the global leader in assuring safety in order to find, analyze and address processes, sources of safety data, and integrated runway safety enhancement initiatives Investigations risk in the NAS. The SMS is comprised of four safety analysis to continue to reduce serious are effective in maintaining an Safety Risk Monitoring acceptable level of safety at U.S. main components which combine to create a runway safety events, and to identify, mitigate Data Analysis systemic approach to managing and ensuring and monitor the conditions and factors that airports with an air traffic control Partnership for Safety safety. These components are Safety Policy, combine to create risk before serious events tower. Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance, occur. These efforts are both local and national Audits and Evaluations and Safety Promotion. Presently, the ATO and in scope. We can pinpoint problems at an airport Airports Division utilize SMS as a systemic to a single intersection at a specific time of day or approach to managing the safety of airport use millions of data points to identify a systemic operations. Through the NRSP, the Runway problem. SAFETY RISK Safety Program continues runway safety MANAGEMENT Analyze, Assess, Mitigate, activities into the FAA’s SMS. Our Runway Safety Enhancement Initiatives apply and Accept Risk strategic efforts to mitigate the identified risk. To Develop Monitoring Plan The NRSP builds on the achievements of the that end, this regional plan endeavors to align its Implement Runway Safety National Runway Safety Plan 2015-2017. The most activities with the principles and components of Enhancement Initiatives that manage Safety Risk Management fundamental impact of the first plan has been the FAA’s current SMS to the greatest extent possible. or reduce the risk of airport operations. Documents successful integration of the Safety Management System principles into the Runway Safety strategy. SAFETY POLICY SMS Orders Establish and maintain policies and Safety Guidance procedures to ensure adequate FAA/ATO Safety Orders resources are available to accomplish the FAA’s near-term and strategic SMS Manual objectives. SAFETY PROMOTION Outreach and Education Products Relentlessly promote best practices, lessons learned, and actionable Lessons Learned information obtained from data Workshops analysis to our global runway safety Safety Communication stakeholders. 6 Western Pacific Region (AWP) Runway Safety Plan FY20 Western Pacific Region (AWP) Runway Safety Plan FY20 7 y Tier 1: three Priority Airports; Additionally, due to their connectivity and impact Regional Runway Safety Plan y Tier 2: ten Airports of Interest; to multiple facilities within the region, the RRST continues to work various systemic aviation issues. y Tier 3: the balance of Core 30 airports not The Runway Safety Governance Council (RSGC) (RRSP) Methodology selected previously; may elevate systemic issues as appropriate to their y Tier 4: all remaining AWP airports. respective headquarter’s Line of Business or to the National Runway Safety Council (RSC) through the The Regional Runway Safety Program Managers The AWP RRST utilized multiple measures trends, is shown in APPENDIX D. Runway Safety Group manager. to identify candidate airports for the FY2020 (RRSPM) will take appropriate action to monitor Tier RRSP. The data considered is contained within The ultimate airport determinations are based on 4 airports, address increasing surface error trends a 12-month rolling calendar period ending April consensus of each RRST member’s subject matter and/or raise the level of attention within the RRST. 30, 2019. AWP airports with 7 or more total RIs expert (SME) perspective in combination with the or a runway incursion rate per 100,000 airport data. Each core member had the opportunity to FY2020 Airports of Interest per RRST (Data: May 1, 2018 through April 30, 2019) operations of 5.00 or more were included among consider the connectivity to or support toward their own business plans where applicable. Based on this the initial candidate airports. Two airports which ≥ 3 Ke y Indicat or s did not make either of the first baseline cutoffs, combination of data and SME expertise, the RRST Candidate (VPD RI Movement # RIM LOC but were in the FY2019 RRSP, were added for culled the initial 33 airports to 15 for inclusion in the Airports # Key Category ≥ 2 OI ≥ 6 PD + VPD Area (6/24/19 FY 20 Part 139 Indicators A or B RI RI RI SI) RE WSO AELP Collision Inventory) (AIP Constr.) Airports comparison. One AWP Core 30 airport that did FY2020 RRSP. Finally, those airports were evaluated not have the baseline criteria was added so that for and placed into a four-tiered support structure: IWA 6 all six AWP Core 30 airports were among the LAS 7 first candidate airport list. This initial process MYF 6 resulted in culling AWP’s program airports from PHX 5 81 to 33. The AWP plan priorities listed SAN 1 The Regional Runway Safety Team (RRST) below will be routinely kept within CCR 5 then evaluated the 33 candidate airports in view of and reported up to the light of twelve criteria or “key indicators” which RSGC by the RRST: CNO 8 the team considered indicative of actual or DVT 5 potential surface-based risk: Category A/B AWP Priority Airports HNL 8 RI; 2 or more OI-RI; 6 or more PD RI; 3 or more VPD (RI + SI); Runway Excursions (RE); Wrong The AWP RRST priority airports are: LAX 6 Surface Operations; Aviation English Language SBA 5 y Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Proficiency (AELP); Movement Area Collision; AZ (IWA) SFO 6 Runway Incursion Mitigation (RIM) locations; STS 5 FY2020 construction planned; FAR Part 139 y McCarren International, NV (LAS) Airport. The occurrences/number of key y Montgomery-Gibbs Executive TUS 7 indicators for each airport was tallied. Additional Airport, CA (MYF) VGT 6 surface-based risk may be associated with the AWP Priority Issues compounding of multiple key indicators. While NOTES no numerical cutoff was applied, this informed The priority issues for the region, which CANDIDATE AIRPORTS BASE LINE: Airports under construction have ≥ 7 total RIs or an RI rate of ≥ 5.00 per 100k airport operations. RRST members