As part of our overall safety goals, Miami Air has established a system for our Flight Crew, Maintenance, Ground Crew, Inflight and Dispatchers to voluntarily identify and report safety and operational concerns. The collected information is reviewed and analyzed to facilitate early detection and improved awareness of operational deficiencies and adverse trends. The information specified in employee reports are used to identify the root causes and determine appropriate remedial actions which are then monitored for effectiveness. This process promotes collaboration between employee work groups and management for the early identification of hazards and to maintain a proactive approach regarding safety concerns and corrective action recommendations.
Miami Air, in cooperation with our employee labor organizations and the FAA, has established an Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) for Flight Crew. The Miami Air ASAP is a voluntary, self-reporting program designed to identify and reduce possible flight safety concerns. ASAP uses employee input to identify significant safety concerns and issues; operational deficiencies; non-compliance with regulations; deviations from company policies and procedures; and unusual events. In partnership with the all relevant departments, labor organizations, and the FAA, each report is investigated and corrective actions determined based on a non-disciplinary approach to flight safety.
Miami Air has developed a system for the submission of incident and event reports by our Flight Crew, Maintenance, Ground Crew, Inflight and Dispatchers to identify safety and operational deficiencies within their respective departments. These reports will be investigated and analyzed to identify hazards; determine appropriate safety and/or operational improvements; monitor the effectiveness of corrective actions, and proactively promote employee awareness of potential problems.
As an integral part of Miami Air’s Fatigue Risk Management Plan (FRMP), pilots are required to report all cases of fatigue-related risk, errors, and incidents to their immediate supervisor. A reporting system has been made available in order to collect information on the frequency that pilots: are provided with insufficient sleep opportunity due to overtime or contingency situations; obtain insufficient sleep; exhibit fatigue-related symptoms; or make a non-consequence error that may have been fatigue-related. Collected fatigue reports are protected under Miami Air’s Just Culture and as such, no pilot will be punished for submitting a fatigue report unless the fatigue resulted from a lack of responsibility by the pilot crewmember to report rested for duty.