Chantilly, VA, June 11, 2008 — The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) is pleased to announce the availability of AVSiS, a revolutionary safety event reporting and tracking system specifically for the on-demand air charter industry and shared aircraft ownership programs.
AVSiS is a powerful software program that collects detailed safety event data for analysis, response deployment and success measurement, and provides a tool for accounting for the cost savings realized by interventions.
To encourage the wide-spread use of this safety-enhancing tool, ACSF is making the program available to all Part 135 on-demand operators and Part 91K fractional program managers at no charge. “We believe so strongly in the benefits offered by this program that we are providing the program free to the industry, including online access to the necessary computer servers to house operator databases,” explained ACSF Executive Director Jacqueline Rosser.
“A non-punitive event reporting program is essential to a positive safety culture and to maintain constant safety awareness in a company. It has been estimated that for each fatal accident, as many as 360 incidents occur. Proper investigation of reported incidents or “near misses” provides an opportunity to identify and correct underlying problems before an accident occurs,” said Russ Lawton, ACSF director of safety management and AVSiS project leader.
In addition to the individual user benefits, the database structure provided by the ACSF will allow the foundation to conduct high-level analysis of the data to identify industry trends and publish intervention strategies where appropriate, while maintaining the privacy of the unique users.
Operator user accounts will be established on a first-come, first-served basis from registrations completed at acsfdev.com/avsis.