Safety oversight audits have inspired organizational changes in the U.K. system

摘要

As the United Kingdom discovered through its experience with ICAO safety oversight audits, external reviews offer valuable lessons that can lead to a more effective safety oversight system. When a high-level team of experts from ICAO headquarters were invited to assess the safety oversight capability of the United Kingdom in April 1998, for many staff members of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) the visit was their first direct contact with ICAO. Five years later, having developed much closer working relationships with the organization, there is a greater understanding of the relevance and the purpose of ICAO. The catalyst for this was the ICAO Safety Oversight Programme and its successor, the ICAO Universal Safety Oyersight Audit Programme (USOAP).