Operational staff of the Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) are training on security management within the aeronautic industry in Cameroon.
The official opening of the nine-day training at the SAWA Hotel was presided over by the Regional Delegate of Transport, Ayuketa Pauline.
Skills gained, experts say, will contribute significantly to the improvement of security in air navigation with the goal of rendering quality services to users. “The training speaks of the importance government attaches to air navigation security,” said the General Manager of ASECNA, Paul Alain Marcellin, who doubles as Director of Quality Security Controls, while opening the session yesterday. The modern approach to security, he explained, is based on an organisational management of security and therefore requires a profound cultural change and a total commitment of human resources.
Christened “Training for the putting in place of Security Management System”, the workshop is in continuation of the high-level conference on security held in Montreal in April 2010, which established a new provision called Annex 19, dedicated exclusively to safety management. The annex, to which ASECNA is associated, obliges involvement of the State on security management, as a National Programme on Security and Security Supervision, makes provision for Security Management Service, SMS, providers as well as the collection, analysis and information exchange. The on-going exercise focuses on the collection, analysis and exchange of information within the aeronautic industry.
Through the training, ASECNA seeks to promote cooperation through the Cameroon Civil Aviation Authority (CCAA) to put in place an obligatory and voluntary system of notification of all security events, as well as exchange mechanisms of best practices. As part of the implementation of its SMS, ASECNA is in search of a software platform that will, in strict compliance with the rules in force, pave the avenue for its users to post notices of events and to get feedback conveniently early. He said it is through assistance and cooperation that they can together attain the level of security as defined by the State. Present for the opening were also CCAA officials, transport and council officials.
