DOT Highlights Safety as Top Management Challenge

Enhancing aviation and surface safety remains the top priority for the U.S. Department of Transportation, concluded the department’s Inspector General in a recent report of the agency’s top management challenges. The IG acknowledges, however, that while the DOT has made progress on safety, “it is faced with challenges to fine-tune how it collects, verifies and uses safety data, and to bolster its industry oversight with respect to aircraft maintenance, inspector resources and pilot performance and training.” It also raised similar concerns about data collection and analysis at the FAA.