The 61st NATO Flight Safety working Group was held in Bratislava, Slovakia from 30 September to 2 October 25 and brought together a large number of NATO member Flight Safety teams to provide updates on their respective Flight Safety issues and to review related STANAGs and Liaison activity reports. In addition, it provided an opportunity to discuss topical issues on Flight Safety such as the challenges of unregulated drone use and the opportunities for AI to support Air Safety teams. The EAG attends regularly as we have a Safety Management Systems project that looks to help members develop the effectiveness of their own SMS. An off-shoot of this work is the EAG’s Project AIRIS (AI Risk Intelligence in Safety) which aims to examine the potential of AI in Air Safety Risk Management by developing an AI demonstrator tool in conjunction with IBM, to explore AI’s potential to significantly enhance the capabilities of Air Safety teams in their analysis and decision making when using this new technology.
The EAG provided a presentation which identified the need to improve current reactive Safety Management Systems so that better use of data exploitation could be made to justify changes. It also described how risk models such as BowTie and the system-based version called Generic BowTie, could be used by AI to improve data relationships and generate coding that links relevant data to specific control measures (BowTie barriers) and helps evidence their relative effectiveness. This in turn would build a picture of risk exposure that could help justify why changes needed to be made. Project AIRIS will also include development of a Digital Dashboard that enhances the visual representation of this data and specifically the identification of changes to the risk landscape. The next phase will consider the grading of individual barrier effectiveness by AI based on the data evidence, before considering how tracking patterns of barrier failures can improve our ability to predict potential future issues. The presentation generated great discussion and interest in the potential of Project AIRIS which is now seeking nations interested in joining the project.
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