2.Aviation Safety Focuses on Hazard Identification

Aviation safety focuses on hazard identification and risk assessment with mitigation strategies to reduce risk to as low as reasonably practical (ALARP). If you are an aviation safety professional, ALARP should be very familiar to you already; however, to the layperson, ALARP is may seem mysterious.

As aviation service providers' safety cultures mature, they move from a reactive risk management strategy to proactive risk management. The ultimate goal of aviation safety is for all aviation service providers to achieve the ability to predict events and be prepared to mitigate risk scenarios whenever hazards manifest themselves. This predictive ability hinges on many factors, including:

· Top management support;

· Data collection;

· Organizing data properly; and

· Ability to decipher data on a routine basis.