Taking your oversight system to the next level requires a shift from compliance-based to performance-based safety oversight. This transition enables you to focus on safety performance and risks, rather than just compliance with regulations. A key element in performance based oversight is having up-to-date knowledge of the safety performance of individual aviation organisations as well as at state level.
NLR can support you in improving your contextual information on safety performance, monitoring main safety risks in your State, and performing oversight on Safety Management Systems of air transport organisations.
NLR can support you with:
- Developing tools and techniques to collect, process, integrate, and analyse data from various sources to build a comprehensive picture of safety performance.
- Identifying main safety risks using qualitative and/or quantitative risk models.
- Interpreting safety performance at both organisation and at national levels.
- Benchmarking safety performance statistics against European and worldwide data.
- Providing tools for visualising safety performance in a clear and unambiguous way.
- Supporting oversight on Safety Management Systems (SMS) by assisting auditors and inspectors in assessing and interpreting safety performance information.
Track Record
NLR has performed international studies on the performance based approach to regulations and oversight, on the regulatory Performance Scheme for the European Commission and for EASA. We assist the Dutch Regulator with the implementation of performance based oversight in the Netherlands. We also performed reviews of safety performance measurement methodologies of Civil Aviation Authorities, e.g. for FOCA (Switzerland) and the CAA of Singapore. We contributed actively in the EASA work groups to develop the new EU 2017-373 and its guidance material, including material on risk based review by Competent Authorities in case of changes by ANSPs.
