INTHESPOTLIGHT By Dan Reed
HeliOffshore Brings Safety
Innovation to Offshore Operators Competitors share data to target improved safety.
G Gretchen Haskins
ROTOR MAGAZINE: HeliOffshore is known for its dedication to global offshore helicopter safety. Your orga- nization has become an example of companies—com- petitors—coming together to cooperate on safety issues. How hard has it been to create the necessary trust and cooperation around the idea of managing safety issues as an industrywide cooperative endeavor?
HASKINS: We were fortunate right from the start to get the CEOs of five major helicopter operators to come together and say, effectively, “We’re not going to compete on safety.” Thanks to that early, strong support for the concept, HeliOffshore has been able to create almost a safety management system for the entire industry, not just individual companies. We started our work based on one primary question: “How would you form a collaboration to ensure that NO lives will be lost in helicopters, or certainly in
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retchen Haskins knows best safety practices when she sees them. The CEO of HeliOffshore Ltd. in London, UK, is an aviation industry
leader in safety performance improvement and an inter- nationally recognized expert in human factors. She has served on the board of the UK Civil Aviation Authority as group director of safety, guiding aviation safety in the United Kingdom, including airlines, aerodromes, air traf- fic, airworthiness, and personnel. Haskins’s aviation background includes having flown jet and piston aircraft in the US Air Force. Haskins has led HeliOffshore since its founding in
2014 by five major helicopter operators. The organization now has 118 members that work collaboratively to improve offshore helicopter safety around the world.
offshore helicopter operations?” It’s not a question of how this or that operator elimi- nates deaths in offshore operations but how the entire group does so.
ROTOR: But that sounds easier said than done.
HASKINS: Right. Well, we had to get our arms around what the broad threats facing the industry are, not just the threats individual operators see, because none of the individual operators are big enough, really, to have large enough data sets to allow them to see the full picture. But we had a good example to follow from the fixed-
wing world, which has several organizations, like the Flight Safety Foundation, ICAO, and the various airline trade groups, which all use broad data from across the industry to detect trends that may not be—and probably aren’t—visible at the single-operator level. So we bor- rowed from those established approaches. That had never really be done in the vertical flight world.
ROTOR: Any examples from the fixed-wing world that were especially helpful?
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