Complacency is the biggest safety risk in Europe, according to speakers at EASA’s Annual Safety Conference held in the Danish capital Copenhagen earlier this month. Experts from across the continent’s aviation sector also called for regulations to be reviewed, updated, and simplified to concentrate the safety focus in an increasingly complex operating environment.
“In aviation, we have to constantly reconsider how safe we are,” said EASA executive director Florian Guillermet, reflecting on what the agency has characterized as strong safety performance in recent years. “Our discussions show that we are starting to get a better grip on safety risks at stake today and that we have a common mindset. Now we need to come together to take the right actions, including to ensure that we don’t do compliance for the sake of compliance but for the sake of safety, to keep standards high, while ensuring we have a competitive European aviation industry.”
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