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Baines Simmons Safety Symposium – November 2015Transforming the CAA to a Performance Based Regulator

Stephanie Shaw: Civil Aviation Authority

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Our Vision

To transform the CAA into a Performance Based Regulator,

working with industry to demonstrably reduce safety risk

across the total aviation system and develop the capabilities

required for future regulators.

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What does PBR mean?

And why is it important?

1. Performance Based Oversight

2. Safety & Risk Management

3. Safety Improvement

4. Flexible Resourcing

5. Knowledge Sharing

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Sep-13Project kick-off, 4 men and an idea, concept of operations developed

Mar-14

Augmented team, PBO process

developed

May 2014PBR Conference, PBRIG stood up. Development of PBO Tools and training for

CAA staff

Jun-14

First PBO Rollout, PBO tools collaborative working,

sharing of information Jul-15

Regulatory SMS Phase 1 Assessment completed.208 entities assessed by

our field force .

Aug-15

Feedback to build on PBR sharing with

other NAAs

Oct-15

Second PBR Conference

demonstrated how we have delivered against the mandate and listen

to industry views on progress and ambition.

BEA developed .

PBR fully embedded in the business- start of the new journey

Apr-16

The PBR Journey

Sep-15

New PBO tools in use , EPT on CRM . Focus

for the second year being qualitative rather

than qualitative

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Benefits of PBR

• Improved safety performance and clearly identified safety outcomes• Resources (industry & regulatory) can be targeted strategically to the

areas with the greatest potential to deliver safety improvements• CAA Board can make more strategic decisions based on real safety

data using the Regulatory SMS understanding systemic risk• CAA is a credible partner to industry rather than a pure compliance

checking mechanism• Improved information flow to really understand risk and encourage

evidence based decisions• Comparability of existing data helps industry to feedback evidence

more easily and identify trends• Safety is at the forefront of PBR, but the other areas are seeing the

benefits of the integrated approach

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Questions?

stephanie.shaw@caa.co.uk