MECHANISMS AND STRATEGIC PRIORITIES OF STATE FLIGHT SAFETY MANAGEMENT

Abstract

The article addresses an urgent problem related to determining the priorities of public management and administration of a safe component of the activity of state and civil aviation in general and aviation of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in particular against the background of the dynamics of coordination of flights of all types of aviation in the airspace of responsibility of Ukraine.

The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine is the authorized central body of executive power for regulating the activities of state aviation, including the security context. The mechanism of realization of the state policy of Ukraine in the field of aviation activity of all types of aviation is the Authority for Regulation of Activities of State Aviation. This Authority is entrusted with a fairly wide range of powers and tasks. The regulation of these powers and tasks is carried out by administering the entire spectrum of state aviation activities for the intended purpose, and in a security context – strict adherence to the statutory indicators of acceptable risk of flight operations.

Overall, flight safety management is based on a systematic approach to identifying and eliminating sources of danger and controlling risks to minimize human, material, financial, environmental and social losses. But in the security context, no significant changes in the system of state regulation of state aviation activity have taken place, traditional approaches that were in place until Ukraine gained its independence still remain. The basis for defining a set of security measures on the basis of a unified approach to aviation activity management still retains a retroactive approach, the essence of which lies in the administrative response and determination of mechanisms of state influence on its state, which obviously leads to a decrease in the effectiveness of state supervision of flight safety of all aviation entities. It is obvious that all existing basic flight safety management concepts are focused on implementing measures after an aviation accident has occurred. Thus, there is no preventive, predictive approach.

The introduction of a modern approach to flight safety management requires the development of new regulations and the improvement of state policy on regulation of state aviation activities. The basis for the formulation of such a policy should be the prognostic assessment of tasks that can be assigned to state aviation at one time or another, the conditions for their implementation (state of emergency, emergency situation, martial law) and, of course, the human factor.

In this context, the author aims to determine the basic concepts, innovative mechanisms and strategic priorities of state aviation safety management based on proactive technologies within the tasks assigned to the aviation of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES).