The onshore review has shown important safety related data is not being captured as part of the ECCAIRS occurrence reporting system. It is recommended that EASA propose, to the ECCAIRS working group, amendments to the existing taxonomy for Human Factors and the ability to identify the HF additional contributory factors in events.
Recommendation Response
Mandatory Occurrence Report (MORs) has been a part of the fabric of UK aviation operations since 1976. Reporting is mandated by UK Regulation 376/2014 which requires the reporting of safety related occurrences involving UK airspace users.
ECCAIRS (European Co-ordination Center for Accident and Incident Reporting Systems) provides a digital platform to integrate European National Aviation Authorities (NAA’s) and Safety Investigation Authorities (SIA’s) to enable the implementation of the provisions defined in regulation 376/2014.
Since publication of CAP1864, there has been significant developments and improvements within the ECCAIRS system when it transitioned for ECCAIRS Ver1 to ECCAIRS2, including:
- State of the art IT technology secured central architecture, private cloud environment, managed by EASA.
- Integrated cybersecurity protocols, with Multi-Factor-Authentication and fully encrypted data.
- Compatibility with all internet browsers and operating systems.
- User-friendly interfaces.
- All updates, fixes, enhancements for both the Software and the Taxonomy values immediately available for users.
- Central support via built-in “helpdesk” to report issues, ask questions, propose improvements.
- Integration into Data4Safety program of the EC/EASA, subject to strict data protection as per EU 376/2014: advanced analytics, insights and auto-improved data quality to support aviation safety.
Furthermore, a new version of the European Aviation Safety Reporting Portal was published on 5th Jan 2021. The portal is available at aviationreporting.eu
With regards the recommendation that there be amendments to the existing taxonomy for HF, this was included in the upgrade to ECCAIRS2, with the taxonomy now containing a broad range of human factors and human performance related event types. The personnel section contains 103 level 4 event types that cover the majority of HF related contributory factors required for retrieval and analysis.
The taxonomy needs to strike a balance between capturing the required detail and usability as the individuals that apply the taxonomy (industry and CAA) will not be subject matter experts in the field.
For the large majority of MORs that are processed the taxonomy adequately captures the HF elements involved. Feedback on coding practices, monitoring and continual learning by the capability teams and Safety Data help to ensure that the events are coded to the required standard.
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