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IHST Safety Implementation Strategy Workshop-info and agenda

** LINK to a PDF of  the Final Agenda found below** During the 2012 HeliExpo the International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST) will provide an informative workshop to summarize the IHST’s analysis of U.S. accidents and present the top twenty recommended intervention strategies to reduce the helicopter accident rate. Topics will encompass training, flight data monitoring, maintenance, safety management systems [...]

IS-BAO for Helicopter Operators

IS-BAO for Helicopter Operators – Reprint from IS-BAO Auditor Newsletter, May 2011 Over the years a number of operators who fly or otherwise use helicopters have become IS-BAO registered.  In 2009 some of these operators and others who believed that the IS-BAO could be more broadly used within the helicopter community, engaged in discussion with [...]

IS-BAO for Helicopters – Expected Spring of 2011 and other ISBAO/SMS news

IS-BAO Auditor Newsletter (Excerpts) November 2010 IS-BAO for Helicopters The helicopter community has expressed a desire to use the IS-BAO as the safety standard for that sector and to that end an Agreement has been signed between IBAC and three of the largest helicopter association (HAI, BHA, EHA) to develop a Helicopter Edition (HE) of IS-BAO.  The proposal is [...]

IS-BAO Auditor Newsletter

The following excerpt from the IS-BAO Auditor Newsletter demonstrates the acceptance the IS-BAO is gaining. CAPACG is encouraged by the growing number of flight departments that are incorporating the IS-BAO. IS-BAO Auditor Newsletter July 2010 (excerpt) “Audits Flowing In Since the beginning of the year more than 120 IS-BAO audits at all stages have been processed. Our [...]