Increasing Helicopter Safety: One for All, All for One

摘要

Helicopter Association International (HAI), the International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) and other industry leaders have identified safety management systems (SMS) as a key tool in the effort to reduce helicopter accidents 80 percent by 2016. Without setting into the statistics, there are plenty of places to read the raw numbers, but let's start by agreeing that the helicopter industry's safety record leaves room for improvement. In 2007 it reached a level where the helicopter industry collectively said, "enough is enough." So representatives from HAI, the American Helicopter Society (AHS), manufacturers, operators and others joined together to create IHST.