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1989
1989 - 1554.PDF
IATA computerises airline safety The Safety Manager's Toolkit —a database program offered by the International Air Transport Association which is designed to make airline safety manage ment easier and more efficient—has been sold to some 20 carriers since it became available in January. Capt David Simmon, safety chief of United Airlines', which co-developed the program with IATA, says that Toolkit has increased the carrier's safety department productivity by 20 per cent. Simmon claims that Toolkit can generate custom- made safety reports (either periodical or short-notice) "in seconds instead of days". British Airways says that an annual safety report summary, which normally takes two weeks to prepare, was produced in only three days. The program enables each airline to build and manage its own unit database, with the advantage that it will be common to that of other Toolkit users. The database package includes IATA Safety Informa tion Exchange (SIE) events on disk going back to 1987. There are about 160 airlines in IATA has seen United and All Nippon take up its safety "Toolkit" the SIE system. Confidentiality is programmable, using pass words. For the first time, says IATA, an airline safety manager can recall, manipulate, and exchange easily all the data available on his own records and the numerous sources open to IATA through the SIE. The package consists of a Business Simulations computer database program, "Cardbox Plus", the IATA Toolkit manual, and a disk containing two pre-recorded databases. The databases, developed by IATA using airline advice and participation, share formats and templates, and contain fields and print-outs suitable for vari ous purposes. IATA developed Toolkit primarily to enable the airline safety manager to record safety- related events, incidents, and accidents; to monitor the progress of the associated safety investigations; to select and print out information in a vari ety of requested formats; and to produce statistics for safety data analysis. Monitoring the progress of essential safety-related action is remarkably easy. IATA's assistant director flight oper ations services, Bob Wood- house, points out that, because management can check pro gress at the tap of a keyboard, there is a external motivation for the safety department, and for engineers and aircrew involved in consequent action. "CHANGE THE OIL AND 28 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 27 May 1989
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