As part of our overall safety goals, PlaneSense has established a system for our Flight Crew, Maintenance, Ground Crew, and Other Employees to voluntarily identify and report safety and operational concerns. The collected information is reviewed and analyzed to help detect and improve awareness of operational deficiencies and adverse trends. The information specified in employee reports is used to identify the root causes and determine appropriate remedial actions. These actions are monitored for effectiveness. This process promotes collaboration between employee work groups and management for the early identification of hazards and maintains a proactive approach regarding safety concerns and corrective action recommendations.

Your username is the same as your MS Outlook username. Your password in HOTS will not change from the password you set up initially (even when Outlook requires a password change), unless you login and change it or you ask the Safety Department to change it for you.

First time logging in: Under "User Management", you will need to update your "Contact Information". Everything in red is required (this allows our system to send your report to NASA's Aviation Safety Report System, if you so choose).

Returning Users: To fill out a HOTS form, under "Incident Reports", click "Add a New Incident Report". Fill out as much information as is possible.

HOTS is confidential and non-punitive. PlaneSense and the Safety Department have no interest in penalizing employees who fill out safety forms.

Remember: some HOTS forms are required by the GOM Chapter 20.1

If you are making a report to the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS, also known as the "NASA Form"), we STRONGLY recommend you do so with your real name. In this system, NASA acts as the intermediary between the pilot and the FAA regulators and, by law, cannot release your identity to the FAA. Furthermore, the FAA will not use ASRS information in any enforcement action. But you must have a copy of the acknowledgement letter from NASA to prove you reported the incident. Without your name and address, NASA cannot mail you the receipt!

If you would still like to remain anonymous, return to the Safety Page on the CrewRoom and click the link beneath the HOTS (WBAT) link. That will take you to a generic form. When you submit that form, your Safety Department will receive it via email (it will not tell us who sent the form) and we will enter that information into HOTS ourselves. The "anonymous logins" that used to be available to employees have been disabled.

Please report any issues you have to the Safety Department.

Thanks for your time and patience. Be safe!