Rio de Janeiro, September 15, 2010. In order to provide its employees with a security management system focused on controlling and preventing accident risks in their operations, TAP Manutenção e Engenharia Brasil S.A. is implementing its Operational Security Management System (Sistema de Gerenciamento de Segurança Operacional – SGSO), today.
Historically, aviation security has been developed by reacting to analyses of past accidents and introducing corrective measures for preventing the recurrence of those events. With the current extremely low accident rate, it is increasingly difficult to implement security improvements by using this method. Therefore, a proactive approach was created for security management that concentrates more on controlling processes than on making efforts toward extensive inspection and corrective measures for final products.
The Operational Security Management System (SGSO), according to the internationally recognized name adopted by ANAC – Safety Management System (SMS) – is becoming the standard security program for the aviation industry, worldwide, on the recommendation of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and it should be carried out in four phases. At TAP M&E Brasil, the conclusion of the four stages is scheduled for December 2012.
According to ICAO, governments should establish a security program for aircraft operations and maintenance, air traffic services, and airports. This program should be carried out in phases, in order for a whole series of manageable steps can be furnished that effectively administrate employee work load, as well as produce a cultural change in the process of treating hazards and risks. Therefore, the SGSO is effective and able to produce such benefits as reducing incidents and accidents and reducing direct and indirect costs for insurance premiums, and not to merely to be another bureaucratic program.
“This initiative seeks to promote the management of risks by anticipating situations that could generate some type of danger to the routine of the Company and its employees. Our objective is to control risks and to ensure that this control is effective, as well as produce a cultural change in the process of treating hazards and risks on behalf of the entire Organization,” comments the President of TAP M&E Brasil, Engineer Nestor Mauro Koch.
