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Safety - Bulgaria

PRB monitoring

▪ BULATSA achieved the EoSM targets for RP3 on all management objectives except safety risk management. The target was exceeded for safety promotion and safety policy and objectives.

▪ Bulgaria developed specific safety measures to achieve the acceptable level of safety performance in the National Safety Plan, which will be implemented between 2020 and 2024. Specific actions were undertaken to improve the EoSM level in safety risk management for BULATSA.

▪ The occurrence performance was good with a lower rate of separation minima infringement in 2020 than in 2019 and no occurrences of runway incursions reported in 2020.

▪ BULATSA monitors safety performance using specific automated safety recording tools for occurrences and it is one of only a handful of ANSPs to do so.

Effectiveness of Safety Management (EoSM) (KPI#1)

Focus on EoSM

Four out of five EoSM components of the ANSP meet, or exceed, already the 2024 target level. Only the component “Safety Risk Management” is below 2024 target level. All in all, one question out of 28 is below the target level.

Detailed information on Safety performance monitoring for the year 2020 are included in Performance Review Body Monitoring Report 2020, Annex III – Safety report

Safety occurrences

Rate of runway incursions (RIs) (PI#1)

Rate of RIs per 100,000 airport movements - Bulgaria
# Airport name APT movements Number of RI Rate RI per 100,000
1 Sofia NA NA NA
Focus on runway incursions

Detailed information on Safety performance monitoring for the year 2020 are included in Performance Review Body Monitoring Report 2020, Annex III – Safety report

Rate of separation minima infringements (SMIs) (PI#2)

Rate of SMI with ANS contribution per 100,000 flight hours
# ANSP
Flight hours
Number of SMIs
Rate of SMI per 100,000 flight hours
% variation in rate of SMIs
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
1 BULATSA 127,863 NA NA NA NA 1 NA NA NA NA 0.8 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Focus on separation minima

Detailed information on Safety performance monitoring for the year 2020 are included in Performance Review Body Monitoring Report 2020, Annex III – Safety report

Quality of occurences reporting

Detailed information on Safety performance monitoring for the year 2020 are included in Performance Review Body Monitoring Report 2020, Annex III – Safety report

Use of automated safety data recording system (ASDRS) (PI#3)

Use of automated safety data recording system - 2020
For RIs For SMIs
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Detailed information on Safety performance monitoring for the year 2020 are included in Performance Review Body Monitoring Report 2020, Annex III – Safety report

 
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