Eastern Security Strategy And Its Implementation

Safety is an eternal subject ever in aviation. It's not just a lip service by saying "Responsibility of safety is above all". Safety management is directly linked to the people's lives and property, bearing on the safety of the country's image, concerns social harmony and stability. Safety is no joking at all. The crash of August 24 at Yichun in China once again proves such a lesson paid for with blood as "Safety is not everything, but you can never expect anything without it"With new technologies fully utilized in large passenger aircraft and regulations and safety management organizations relating to safety management established to come into enforcement by governments and civil aviation regulatory authorities as well as the enterprises, aircraft is made to be safer and more reliable, and at the meantime, personnel quality and skill levels have been improved obviously as well. But people still tend to believe that both human factors and organizational factors are the root reasons to explain how fatal events happen only. This concept in safety management has, however, turned out to be not fully implemented and strengthened, and often ignored in the real world, resulting in air traffic catastrophic events in a failure to stop. Investigation shows that more than three quarters of the air accidents came of the factors either human or organizational.In accordance with the research by Heinrich, an American expert on safety management, an accident occurred usually out of the various levels in the number of accumulation of unsafe events, which means for every accident/disaster that causes a major injury, there would be 29 serious incidents and 300 events and 1000 potential cases of unsafe scenarios that had happened on the go. This is what is so called "Heinrich's Law", also known as "Iceberg Theory". Thus, we can come to the conclusion that an airlines'overall target for safety management can be achieved as long as probability of "minor cases" and "events" can be prevented from happening, which makes it possible for "accident" and "serious incident" to be under control within acceptable range.At present, the flight safety management in Chinese civil aviation still remain focused on the safety rules and regulations, and level of system build-up, and follow with interest in hardware such as aircraft itself, air traffic control, and airport facilities, etc as well as in establishing a series of restrictions, requirements and measures relating to accomplishing safety management. Difference is out there by comparison with the advanced countries.In view of the technical level, it is very difficult to run a further significant promotion of operational safety. This article is intended to start with a safety management idea and the actual operating conditions, through panel discussions, with the help of foreign advanced safety management idea for reference, and gradually to upgrade the safety management to the philosophy of managing the organizing process from those ideas in the past limited to the flight technique improvement, establishing rules and regulations, and strict execution of provisions at various levels, and in the meantime, to launch a drive on the control of source of risk in the whole operational system through recognition of the existence of risk and acceptance of some risk, through promotion of the safety management system (SMS) construction, by systematic way of management to manage safety, focusing on risk management, with emphasis on the implementation of closed-loop feedback control of the operational safety status, and efforts to develop safety culture construction and eventually to get the safety checkpoint displaced earlier eliminating the source of risk arising out of organizational system and human factors so as to ensure the airlines to stay safe with sustainability and reliability.