Federal Aviation Administration

Air Traffic Organization

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  • |  Updated: 2:21 pm ET August 21, 2009

Office of Safety

The Office of Safety works with operational service units to lead ATO efforts to manage risks, assure quality standards, instill an open culture of disclosure, educate employees and promote continuous improvement.

Responsible for identifying and mitigating aircraft collision risks during the delivery of air traffic separation services, the Office of Safety is the focal point for:

  1. Applying the agency’s SMS principles.
  2. Auditing safety, quality assurance and quality control in the ATO and reporting findings to improve safety performance.
  3. Integrating the functions and information of risk reduction, investigations, evaluations, independent operational testing and evaluation, safety risk management, runway safety and operational services, in order to identify collision risks and influence their resolution.
  4. Providing information on assessments of operational and safety performance within the NAS.
  5. Working with the Associate Administrator for Aviation Safety and other external entities undertaking special projects in support of increasing the safety of the NAS.

Safety Documents