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Empowering Air Navigation Services: CANSO Standard of Excellence in Human Performance Management updated
A review of the 2024 Standard of Excellence in Safety Management System programme
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CANSO Launches Global Safety Achievement Award 2024
New addition to data now available on CANSO Safety Dashboard – powered by Aireon
Latest data now available on CANSO Safety Dashboard – powered by Aireon
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The convergence of cyber threats in the aviation enterprise
At the CANSO Global Safety Conference 2025, Pete Clay, Chief Information Security Officer at Aireon LLC, will be speaking in two sessions on cyber security—tackling the evolving threats facing the aviation industry. In this interview, Peter highlights ‘Compliance Complacency’ as …
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CANSO Global Safety Conference – Getting to grips with GAPPRI
Ahead of the CANSO Global Safety Conference, we spoke with James Lewis, Senior Aviation Consultant, Think Research. James Lewis specialises in aviation safety, project management, concept development and analytics. He has supported major safety initiatives, including safety assessments for runway …
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Human powered Air Navigation: Why Your Organisation Needs the Updated CANSO Standard of Excellence in Human Performance Management
In this new blog, the chair team of the CANSO Safety Human Performance Workgroup talk about the updated Standard of Excellence in Human Performance Management In today’s ever-evolving air traffic management (ATM) landscape, the role of human performance has …
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Increasing Human Performance
The Human Performance Management Workgroup (HPM WG), part of CANSO’s Safety Programme, has been hard at work in 2022 getting back to the business of enhancing, promoting, and supporting human performance and human factors work around the world. This has …
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Normal is overrated
Lea-Sophie Vink leads Human Performance at Austro Control GmbH in Vienna, Austria. Here she discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the performance of those returning to work after the pandemic.
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A collaborative approach to recovery and resilience
Eduardo Garcia Gonzalez, CANSO Manager European ATM Coordination and Safety, explores how regional coordination is key to aviation’s recovery and resilience. As air traffic in Europe and across the globe gradually increases, it is vital that the aviation community …
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Airspace Q2 2019 – Power to the people
Human performance remains the critical link in safe and efficient air navigation service provision. The air traffic management sector is replete with talk of automation, digitisation, augmented reality and artificial intelligence. There is no doubt that these developments will change the role of people but equally assured is that people …
Airspace Q1 2019 – Preventing another Gatwick incident
Ben Marcus, Chairman, AirMap, explains the three steps needed if drones are not to continually disrupt airport operations. From 19 December to 21 December 2018, 67 reports of drone sightings close to the runway of Gatwick Airport resulted in the cancellation of hundreds of flights and brought chaos for an estimated 140,000 passengers. In the …