Proactive safety performance for aviation operations

Abstract

The EU Vision 2020 sets a goal of reducing the air travel accident rate by 80%. Achieving this vision requires innovation and a different approach. PROSPERO (Proactive Safety Performance for Operations) is an EU FP7 project that will provide an advanced systemic methodology for managing the improvement process to help achieve that goal, as well as delivering a way of measuring progress. The overall objectives of PROSPERO are to; (i) Provide a proactive anticipation of complex system risks; (ii) Ensure more effective management of and enhanced learning from situations where risks cannot be designed out of the operation and (iii) Achieve substantial improvement in the elimination of and recovery from human error. This paper reports on the overall PROSPERO concept and high level system requirements as they emerged from the first research phase that focused on identifying industry needs. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.