March 9, 2010, Brisbane, CA – Aircraft Technical Publishers (ATP) announced today that their ICAPSM tool and related service offerings now include International Air Transportation Association Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) pre-audit capabilities which will allow Part 135 and Part 91 operators requiring IOSA accreditation to quickly demonstrate continued compliance and conformance of their documentation to IOSA audit requirements.
According to Bob Trevelyan, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Compliance and Safety Solutions at ATP, “We added this functionality as part of our continuing effort to assist Part 135 and Part 91 operators. This new capability of the ICAP compliance and conformance tool from ATP allows you to manage change on a day to day basis so that IOSA audits become a no-surprise event. This reduces the time and cost necessary for operators to prepare for IOSA audits from weeks to days.”
The ICAP tool from ATP is a web-based service that facilitates regulatory document compliance and conformance to industry best practices. It does this by searching the operator’s manuals and locating text associated with regulator surveillance audit questions. It then captures the text in the manual related to the question, the location in the manual, and identifies any related regulations.
The question, actual text, location of the text, and related regulations can be viewed in printed or electronic reports that reduce the cost and effort of the pre-audit effort. The ICAP tool identifies changes in manuals and/or changes in audit surveillance questions and flags the changes for review by the operation’s compliance officer. As a web-based service, the ICAP tool allows operators to have multiple people working on the pre-audit from anywhere in the world.
About ATP. For almost 40 years, Aircraft Technical Publishers (ATP®) has been the leader in provided the global aviation community valued and effective information solutions. The company has a worldwide customer base including fixed base operators, repair stations, aircraft and component manufacturers, regulatory agencies, airlines, schools and corporate operators.
ATP’s general aviation solutions facilitate content distribution and access for aircraft manufacturers and include the NavigatorV® software platform, subscriber management, print-on-demand provisioning, and branded portal needs. Additionally, the AskBob® online community from ATP is one of the largest and most informative online aviation forums.
ATP’s commercial solutions promote the collaborative management of essential and required operational documents, and prepare Part 121, 135 and 145 certificate holders for regulatory audits with the use of the ICAPSM compliance and conformance tool. The ICAP tool is an essential platform in building a Safety Management System (SMS) foundation. For more information contact David Perkins at 415-330-9544.
