The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has revealed that the country’s aviation industry State Safety Programme (SSP) document would soon be published as it accelerates its completion.
Its Director-General, Capt. Chris Najomo disclosed on Monday in Abuha during. the ICAO-West and Central Africa (WACAF) Regional Office of the African and Indian Ocean (AFI) Region Plan-state Safety Programme (SSP) for Assistant Mission to Nigeria and the event began Monday in Abuja.
Najomo who was represented NCAA Director Special Duties, Mr. Horatius Egua explained that the SSP is an integrated set of regulations and activities aimed at improving safety in civil aviation.
Najomo noted that the document is required by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and is unique to each member State.
The director-general explained that the SSP ensures the effectiveness of safety performance elements and addresses identified aviation safety risks.
He added: “The document has gone through some of the processes that are required. We have sent out the document to stakeholders for inputs and we have feedback.”
Speaking, the National Coordinator SSP and the General Manager, Air Operator Certification and Surveillance, NCAA, Dr. Iteke Chukwunomso maintained that the SSP is an integration of safety activities and safety requirement.
He added: “Its not that we have not been doing that but now we are going to be more proactive and predictive because we don’t need to wait till an accident happens.”
According to him, Part of the SSP would require that the service providers implement an effective management system, and within the effective management systems of the service providers they will be required to justify why they’re are continually being in operations through continuous collection, collation and analysis of safety data. That is what the SSP brings.
“There is a safety management requirement for the states and service providers. The service providers include: airliners, approved maintenance organisation, approved training organisations, international general aviation operators, FAAN, NAMA etc. Some of them have started implementing the State Management Systems but not the way we want it to be,” he concluded.
