Proactive aviation safety: State Safety Programme training

Aviation is evolving beyond reacting to accidents and incidents, moving to anticipating and mitigating safety risks before they happen.

SSP is a set of standards and activities that aims to improve aviation safety by being more proactive as opposed to reactive.

The reason Canada is participating in SSP is simple. We know that our skies and airports are getting busier. We want to maintain our world class civil aviation safety reputation, so we’ll need a more advanced safety system.

SSP is that system. 

Can you tell the difference between proactive and reactive safety?

Reactive Safety

Reactive safety: An aircraft passes by a control tower and is cleared for landing. The aircraft crashes. A person says ‘what happened?’ and a second person responds ‘we’ll fix it next time'.

Proactive Safety

Proactive safety: A circular graphic with a computer in the middle analyzes the inputs which are weather, aircraft type, position, fuel remaining and real time data. After, the computer output is a prediction of severe chance of runway overrun at this time.