NAMA to train personnel on strategic safety management
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Training
By Adekunle Williams and Solomon Asowata
Lagos, June 12, 2017 (NAN)The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) is to embark on the training of various categories of its workforce on strategic safety management, as part of efforts to enhance safety of air navigation in the country.
The Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, made the announcement
while signing the NAMA Safety Policy and Commitment to Safety Management in Lagos on Monday.
Akinkuotu said the training would focus on areas such as Safety Audit of Air Traffic Services, Safety Oversight Management and Practical Preparation for International Civil Aviation Universal Safety Oversight Programme (ICAO USOAP).
According to him, it will also focus on Air Traffic Management Safety Investigation and Analysis, among others.
He said it was targeted at equipping critical staff of the agency with the capacity and proficiency to investigate and analyse air traffic incidents, with a view to mitigating or eliminating future occurrence.
Akinkuotu noted that safety management had become key in a highly sophisticated and dynamic industry such as aviation, hence there was no room for error.
He disclosed that management was putting a machinery in motion to drastically reduce or eliminate incidents while maintaining zero tolerance for accidents.
Akinkuotu also charged top management staff of the agency to buy into the NAMA Safety Policy and also ensure that the message cascades down to the entire staff.
He said: “Everything we do in the agency, one way or the other impacts on safety.
“We must therefore focus not only on the obvious, but even the non-obvious things, and by this, every NAMA staff should key into the safety policy and also be passionate about it.’’
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the signing of the NAMA Safety Policy is in compliance with the prescription of ICAO Document 9859 (Safety Management Manual) Annex 19 (Safety Management Systems).
It requires that the Chief Executive Officer of an aviation service provider must sign a commitment to safety as the Accounting Executive for Safety Management Systems (SMS). (NAN)
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(Edited by Idonije Obakhedo)