ES2

Experience sharing to enhance safety management systems (ES2), anticipates a progression from basic implementation to continuous improvement of the safety culture of an organisation. EUROCONTROL provides direct and pragmatic support to air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and functional air blocks (FABs) to gradually implement the elements of a tailor-made safety management system.

Through ES2, EUROCONTROL promotes information and experience-sharing to move from local implementation and apply a success-based approach to a wider environment, paving the way for the measurement of performance in this same system.

The Story of ES2

Sharing knowledge amongst air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and functional air blocks (FABs) is beneficial in improving individual approaches and provides a route for achieving excellence within the fast-moving European regulatory framework. With this idea in mind, EUROCONTROL experts run regular local working sessions and three plenary sessions per year , culminating in the CEO Safety conference. The event brings together the CEOs of ANSPs from across Europe to share and exchange on safety management and on the implementation of new requirements.

ES2 started in 2010. It is an extension of the former SASI project in the framework of which best practices for several SMS operations were developed. The ANSPs which benefited from this project were extremely complementary about the support provided. The first phase of the SASI project aimed to implement the basic elements of an SMS by the end of 2005. Many of these were achieved, and the 70% SMS maturity baseline was passed at the end of 2009.

SASI management adopted a three-pronged strategy to achieve the project’s objective:

• Initial development of material (framework of procedures, awareness of material and training needs) through working sessions involving safety managers;
• Local deployment at individual ANSPs by the safety manager, with possible support from the SASI experts;
• Continuous improvement, based on feedback from safety managers, in order to enhance the overall efficiency of a given procedure.

Editions

Sep, 2023

ES2 2023

Jan, 2020

ES2 2020

Jan, 2019

ES2 2019

Jan, 2018

ES2 2018

Jan, 2017

ES2 2017

Jan, 2016

ES2 2016

Jan, 2015

ES2 2015

Jan, 2014

ES2 2014

Jan, 2013

ES2 2013

Jan, 2012

ES2 2012

Jan, 2011

ES2 2011

Jan, 2010

ES2 2010

Jan, 2009

ES2 2009(SASI)

Jan, 2008

ES2 2008 (SASI)