Voluntary Reporting Systems - ASRS

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This paper discusses voluntary reporting systems for the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration). It focuses on the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) which was primarily intended for supporting the mission of FAA in eliminating unsafe conditions and preventing avoidable accidents in the national aviation system. The paper specifically discusses the effectiveness with which the data is collected and stored by a program like ASRS and the potency of the feedback loop, of the reporting system, to the industry and the reporters to whom its serves.

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Overview of Voluntary Reporting Systems
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"A major aspect which contributes to the success of ASRS has been the participation of the complete aviation stakeholders' community in the structure of an Advisory Committee of the industry. The Committee offers its aviation expertise, criticism, guidance and advocacy. Semiannual meetings are held by NASA along with the Committee for reviewing the programmatic changes and proposed policies before they are implemented. In effect it can be seen that incident reporting systems which are confidential like the one based on the model of ASRS is not a foolproof method for acquiring data; they are exposed to the fears and biases of the humans. Although voluntary incident reports are treated as a representative model of the events that they describe, it cannot be considered to be so. However, since many years the ASRS model has demonstrated that if the users of the system are confident about reporting problems of safety encountered by them to a program in which they have faith in, the goals of safety would be attained much quicker than if the incidents were not reported by the volunteers. ("ASRS: The Case for Confidential Incident Reporting Systems", n. d.)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• N. A. (n. d.) "ASRS: The Case for Confidential Incident Reporting Systems" Retrieved 28 April, 2008 from http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/docs/rs/60_Case_for_Confidential_Incident_Reporting.pdf
• N. A. (n. d.) "Aviation Safety Reporting System: Program Briefing" Retrieved 28 April, 2008 from http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/overview/summary.html
• NASA Office of Inspector General. (2008, Mar) "NASA OIG: Final Memorandum on the Review of the National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service" Retrieved 28 April, 2008 from http://www.earthtoday.net/news/viewsr.html?pid=27520
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• United States General Accounting Office. (1997, Dec) "Aviation safety: efforts to implement flight operational quality assurance ..." DIANE Publishing.

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