Proactive Mechanisms against Occurrences in Civil Aviation

The top priority for every organization within airline industry has always been safety. It is fundamental to the purpose of the reporting of incidents and accidents that the knowledge gained from occurrences investigations are disseminated so that all in the business involved may take a good from them. However, the current aviation safety system is mainly a reactive and prescriptive. This paper brings a brief overview on Regulation (EU) No 376/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 on the reporting, analysis and follow-up of occurrences in civil aviation, including categories of reportable occurrences as well as other relative legal acts. Notwithstanding, existing legislation requires to conduct the in-depth analyses of all occurrences. In this study Root Cause Analysis is described as an appropriate method for such analysis. The aim of this paper is to give an overview on selected EU legislation acts which are ruling mandatory mechanisms to collect, evaluate, process and store occurrences in civil aviation as well as a method which helps disclose hidden boosters of safety incidents and accidents.