Performance Based Oversight

Performance based oversight shifts the focus on safety performance of individual organisations as well as the safety performance at State and international level. To develop a picture of the safety performance, data needs to be collected that represents in a valid and comprehensive way the safety performance of the aviation system and its actors. Auditors and inspectors will need to assess and interpret all collected safety performance information for their oversight on the actor’s SMS.

NLR can assist aviation authorities in

• Tools and techniques to collect, process, integrate and analyse data from various sources to build a common risk picture / present (safety) performance information
• Identifying main safety risks by making use of qualitative and/or quantitative risk models
• Interpreting safety performance at organisation and State level
• Benchmarking safety performance statistics against European and world-wide data
• Providing tools for visualizing safety performance in a clear and unambiguous way
• Oversight on Safety Management Systems

Track Record

We performed international studies on the performance based approach to regulations and oversight and 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. Recently, 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.