Safety Reporting

Part of building and maintaining a good safety culture involves a system where students and employees feel comfortable reporting safety concerns or hazards that they see on a daily basis. UND Aerospace’s Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) is a tool to create a positive Reporting culture within our Safety Management System (SMS). The information gathered through the ASAP will be reviewed and analyzed to facilitate early detection of areas that need increased awareness and/or show adverse trends within the organization. The information reported through ASAP is used to identify root causes and determine any remedial actions. Finally, UND Aerospace will utilize safety assurance processes to monitor the effectiveness of those changes or remedial actions. In conjunction with a Just safety culture, ASAP will help to promote collaboration between the pilot group and management for a proactive approach to safety concerns and hazard identification.

UND Aerospace, in cooperation with the FAA, has established an Aviation Safety Action Program for the Flight Training department’s students and employees. UND Aerospace’s ASAP is a voluntary, self-reporting program designed to identify and reduce possible flight safety concerns through active employee participation. ASAP uses employee input to identify significant safety concerns and issues; operational deficiencies; non-compliance with regulations; deviations from company policies and procedures; and unusual events that are typically only known to the frontline employees. In partnership with the Fargo FSDO, each report is investigated and corrective actions determined based on a Just approach to safety.

UND Aerospace has developed a system for the submission of incident and event reports for our Flight Training department to identify safety and operational deficiencies that the reporter doesn’t feel needs the protections and benefits provided by ASAP. Incident reports are typically operational hazards that are observed by employees that may result in an internal investigation into the hazard to determine what and if any safety and or operational improvements should be made and then monitored for effectiveness. Incident reports help to proactively promote employee awareness of potential organizational hazards.