State Safety Plan for 2019-2022 (KPB 2019) - 3rd edition, constituting an attachment to the Polish State Safety Programme for Civil Aviation. The document identifies areas of threat / hazard, that will be covered by the procedure of special analyzes and special supervision of the President of the CAA.
It is a tool based on the concept of risk management, i.e. the identification of threats, their assessment and the definition and implementation of mitigation measures. Hazard areas for the needs of KPB 2019-2022 are based on the issues indicated in the European Aviation Safety Plan (EPAS) and developed on the basis of information from the aviation environment.
In addition to strictly operational matters, some areas also include systemic issues. Due to the fact that EPAS is based on the issues identified in the ICAO Global Aviation Safety Plan (GASP), the KPB update 2019-2022 also covers these threats. This year's update addresses the issues contained in the new EPAS draft for 2020-2024.
In addition to identifying threats, KPB 2019 also monitors Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) developed by aviation entities subject to the obligation to measure safety levels (Safety Performance Monitoring). Such entities include aviation training centers and aviation operators as well as aerodrome managers of public use and air navigation service providers.
The President of CAA also encourages those entities that are not yet required to measure the level of safety to participate in this project.
The State Safety Plan is a four-year plan. According to the assumptions, it will be reviewed every 12 months, and each annual edition will cover the next 4 years. This will allow for maintaining the continuity of actions already taken while planning in a broader time horizon.
The State Safety Programme for Civil Aviation defines the standards in force in the territory of Poland in the field of civil aviation safety management.
The document is a set of regulations and measures to improve safety, to manage civil aviation safety and to integrate actions taken at the state level in the field of legislation, policy and objectives in this area. It is also associated with the promotion of safety and supervision over safety management systems (SMS) of entities conducting aviation business.
The State Safety Plan will be annexed to the State Safety Programme for Civil Aviation, in which, with the participation of the aviation environment, issues will be indicated, subject to special monitoring within the framework of the so-called safety level indicators. This will enable aviation surveillance to respond to threats early enough to avoid aviation accidents and to ensure that the costs of mitigating risk are adequate to the objectives. Thanks to this, each of the aviation entities will be able to assess for themselves which of its business areas requires additional management actions. For example, thanks to the planned quarterly publications of the average value of indicators from the entities themselves, each of these entities will be able to assess which of its business areas requires additional management actions. Thus, the entities will not only supply the system with data (as it was before), but, above all, will become its beneficiaries - on the basis of data generated in the safety system they will be able to spend financial resources to improve safety in their organization more effectively.
Thanks to the planned publication of the State Safety Plan together with the areas of threats for the coming years, each of the aviation entities will have knowledge of what area of its activity is currently a priority of the President of the CAA.
Already today, airport managers, air operators, air navigation service providers and aviation training centers together with medical centers are obliged to implement safety management systems together with compliance monitoring. In the future, also service organizations that design, manufacture and manage continuing airworthiness will be covered by European requirements in this regard.
The indicated monitoring of compliance, as the ability to detect gaps in their own procedures, activities or operations, is inextricably linked with the so-called Just Culture - a culture of fair treatment - the value promoted by the Civil Aviation Authority, which was reflected in the signing of the Declaration of Cooperation in the implementation of the "Just Culture" idea. Air carriers are aware of the safety rules.
The response of the supervision to the increase of awareness on the part of entities is the preparation of the State Safety Programme for Civil Aviation together with the developed Annex - Safety Plan covering areas subject to special supervision.
The State Safety Plan is located in the Safety Management tab.
The Polish language version of the "EASA Management System Assessment Tool" can be found here.