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SAFETY: A Small Investment for A Rich Future 2016 Air Charter Safety Symposium March 8-9, 2016 | NTSB Training Center WWW.ACSF.AERO/SYMPOSIUM 2016 Air Charter Safety Symposium ACSF IAS Registration-- all you need to stand out from the rest! Most Experienced ACSF Accredited Audit Company 57 ACSF IAS Audits Conducted SMS Development Assistance ACSF Audit Preparation More than 60 Years Serving Aircraft Operators, Airports, FBOs, MROs and Manufacturers www.rdixonspeas.com [email protected] 781-863-1600 2016 Air Charter Safety Symposium SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: TUESDAY, MARCH 8TH 8:00 am–8:45 am 1:30 pm–2:30 pm REGISTRATION (CONTINENTAL Sponsored by: STANDARDIZATION – WHY BOTHER? BREAKFAST AVAILABLE WITH Dann Runik, Executive Director, Advanced EXHIBITORS) Training Programs, FlightSafety International Building a Safe Team Through Sponsored by: 8:45 am–9:00 am Standardization is a light-hearted WELCOME REMARKS but also very serious look at the Greg Kinsella, Chairman, importance of standardization in any Air Charter Safety Foundation team setting, and what can happen when standards 9:00 am–10:30 am either don’t exist or they are purposely ignored. We MAXIMIZING SAFETY BANG FOR THE BUCK – define what Standardization is, and more importantly LESSONS LEARNED FROM NASA what it isn’t. We use this knowledge to discuss the Charlie Justiz, Ph.D., Managing Director, JFA Inc. best way to build team standardization and a mission oriented, disciplined methodology to trap human error. Safety processes are usually Sponsored by: considered adequate until one 2:30 pm–3:30 pm of them fails and there is an SAFETY METRICS accident. At that point, a follow-on Troy Smith, Special Agent, U.S. Department of Justice, investigation usually unearths a series of holes in your Federal Bureau of Investigation, Program Manager of previously impregnable safety protections. What is worse Aviation Safety is that all line personnel agree the series of holes were This presentation discusses safety Sponsored by: obvious before the accident. At NASA, we recognized this metrics which can be utilized to get cycle and found that a safety campaign was not enough, the attention of senior management that an SMS was not enough, that safety cultures could to line pilots to support staff to drift, and that meetings were not responsive enough to focus on its internal safety programs. Specific tools and fix the problem. What followed was an effort that would examples will be explored on how to implement simple eventually lead us to a self-correcting, data-driven process programs to measure safety efforts within a charter that took us away from excessive risk towards a safer path operation or flight department. to achieve our mission. Sponsored by: Sponsored by: 3:30 pm–4:00 pm 10:30 am–11:00 am REFRESHMENT BREAK REFRESHMENT BREAK 4:00 pm–5:00 pm 11:00 am–12:00 pm DRONES/UNMANNED VEHICLES—AVOIDANCE & APPLIED SYSTEM SAFETY & SMS IN BUSINESS RECOGNITION AVIATION Brian Wynne, President & CEO, Association for Curt Lewis, President, Curt Lewis & Associates Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) This presentation defines basic system Sponsored by: Mr. Wynne will discuss the need for Sponsored by: safety engineering principles and the FAA to finalize its rule for small the concepts of Safety Management unmanned aircraft systems, which will Systems (SMS) as applied to business & corporate provide the tools and training needed aviation. It explains the concepts of hazard identification, to create a culture of safety and airmanship among the risk analysis, and various levels of mitigation. The role UAS users. of human factors is explained in order to create a total safety culture. 5:00 pm–5:30 pm Sponsored by: BOARD BUSES TO 12:00 pm–1:30 pm Sponsored by: RESTAURANT LUNCH AND TWA 800 BRIEFING 5:30 pm –8:30 pm TOUR (INCLUDED WITH Sponsored by: REGISTRATION) NETWORKING RECEPTION AND DINNER 2016 Air Charter Safety Symposium SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9TH 7:00 am–8:00 am Sponsored by: 10:00 am–11:00 am CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST REDUCING RISK The Honorable Chris Hart, NTSB Chairman 8:00 am–8:45 am As safety continues to improve, two Sponsored by: Sponsored by: ASAP PANEL DISCUSSION challenges arise. The first challenge Russ Lawton, Director of Safety & is that complacency increases and ASAP Program Manager ACSF Panel Members: Nicky Armour, safety vigilance decreases. The UTRS & WBAT Project Lead and other guests second challenge is that, as the “low hanging fruits” are addressed, continued improvement becomes ever more 8:45 am–9:30 am difficult and necessitates more thinking “out of the box”. ACCIDENT PREVENTION THROUGH SAFETY This presentation will address both challenges. CULTURE ENHANCEMENT Dan McCune, Associate Vice President for Safety, ERAU, 11:00 am–12:00 pm Daytona Beach THE NEW ERA OF SAFETY The presentation covers several accidents and relates John Allen, Vice President, Safety, Jet Blue Airways solutions so that the cause of the accidents will not be The new FAA Compliance Policy, what Sponsored by: repeated. The presentation Sponsored by: it means for the FAA inspectors and explains that the Safety what it means for certificate holders. Culture is a product of senior The June announcement of the new leadership. Strong leadership FAA Compliance Policy has been 10 years in the making will ensure that a culture of compliance instilled and through vibrant internal debate within the FAA. With the constantly nurtured to prevent the downward spiral into new policy comes an evolution of the relationship between disaster. the regulator and regulated. This policy advocates for the The presentation discusses Normalization of Deviance: use of training, counseling and other safety improvement The accumulated acceptance of cutting corners or tools and use enforcement when the other tools are making work-arounds over time. With a strong safety inappropriate. This Compliance Policy is needed to enable culture an organization can prevent Normalization of SMS to succeed with its requirement of transparency for Deviance from taking root in their safety practices. The certificate holders in the identification of risks and hazards. presentation presents ideas of how organizations can 12:00 pm identify active and latent errors to prevent accidents. Sponsored by: COMPLIMENTARY 9:30 am–10:00 am Sponsored by: TRANSPORTATION TO REFRESHMENT BREAK WASHINGTON DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 1:00 pm–3:00 pm ACSF BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING 2016 Air Charter Safety Symposium AIR CHARTER SAFETY FOUNDATION (ACSF) BOARD OF GOVERNORS Chairman Jon Beatty Thomas L. Hendricks Tom Miller Greg Kinsella President & CEO President & CEO Director of Operations President - Washington, Flight Safety Foundation National Air Gama Charters DC Transportation Jet Linx Aviation Ron Brower Association Lou Nemeth Associate General Chief Safety Officer President Counsel Dave Hewitt CAE Bryan Burns NetJets Executive Vice President, President Safety Charles O’Dell Air Charter Safety David Davenport Wheels Up Director of Operations Foundation Senior Vice President Sun Air Jets FlightSafety International Tom Huff Vice Chairman Aviation Safety Officer Al Pod Joe Salata Dennis Fox Gulfstream President Vice President - Flight Senior Vice President A3P Technologies Operations Executive Jet Mark Larsen Flight Options Management Senior Manager, Safety & Charlie Priester Flight Operations Chairman Treasurer Michael Graham NBAA Priester Aviation John Grillo Manager, Flight President Operations, Jeff Madtes Alan Ray Executive Fliteways Inc. Safety, Security and Director of Operations Chief Safety Officer Standardization MedEscort / National OneSky, LLC George Antoniadis Textron Aviation Transport Flight Group President & Chief Bob Rufli Executive Officer Bill Haberstock Bill Mayo General Manager Aircraft PlaneSense President & CEO President & CEO Management & Charter Keystone Aviation Mayo Aviation Landmark Aircraft Jim Ballough Vice President Joshua Hebert David McKay Tim Sullivan CAVOK CEO President & Chief Director of Operations & Magellan Jets Executive Officer COO Jeff Baum USAIG Chantilly Air President Wisconsin Aviation Dick Van Gemert AIR CHARTER SAFETY FOUNDATION MEMBERS 3M Bohlke International Airways General Electric Corporate Air Kroger Company Rectrix Aviation AAG (Associated Aircraft Business Jet Access Transport Landmark Aviation Red Wing Aeroplane Company Group) Custom Jet Charters Globaljet LJ Aviation REVA Abbott Laboratories, LLC FlexJet Gulfstream Loyd’s Aviation S.C. 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