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Baldwin Safety &amp; Compliance&nbsp;(Booth C12026) has added a new mapping feature and the ability to integrate GE Aviation flight data monitoring (FDM)/corporate flight operational quality assurance (C-FOQA) event information to its safety management system (SMS) programs. According to Baldwin, both are significant additions to its platform, offering its SMS program users more capability to manage their aviation operations safely, efficiently, and with accountability.
Baldwin’s mapping feature “allows users to effortlessly pinpoint and monitor the exact location of safety-related events,” said Jason Starke, the company’s director of safety and product development. “A key advantage of this flexible tool is the ability to monitor data collected from a wide range of sources, including safety reports, Aviation Safety Action Program, Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing, and FOQA.
“The real value lies in the long-term analysis to determine recurring safety hazards and patterns unique to specific areas," he said. "When events such as precise bird strikes, severe turbulence, and course deviations can be plotted on a map, the ability to analyze the data visually and find patterns that can then be mitigated is a huge step forward for the aviation community.”
Similar safety advantages can be garnered from Baldwin’s integration of GE C-FOQA data into its SMS program. Through this feature, “a multitude of flight event data points will seamlessly flow into the Baldwin safety system to analyze, track, and monitor safety events,” Starke said.

“By integrating the data collected from the Flight Data Monitoring system into the Baldwin system, the data goes from being statistics to data that can be analyzed and tracked for future monitoring of the health of the flight department,” he added. “The Baldwin suite of tools will seamlessly handle the imported data for reporting and analysis that can be used to review or expand key safety performance indicators and assurance charts.”
These two enhancements are just the latest introduced by Baldwin for its SMS program. In April, the company also released an external stakeholder safety and quality reporting tool.
According to Starke, “receiving external safety reports can help companies of any size improve safety through widening the scope of hazard identification beyond the organization.” Thus, this tool was developed so external stakeholders can participate as an additional hazard and risk identification mechanism for organizations.
Baldwin said this feature is tied to the recent FAA Part 5 SMS notice of proposed rulemaking, along with the company’s support for the interface management concept advocated for SMS by ICAO.
The external stakeholder safety and quality reporting tool is now available to all Baldwin SMS subscribers, with activation through customer support. Once the tool is active, each client is given a unique URL associated with external reporting that can be shared to enable access by external stakeholders. Baldwin said it employs robust security to protect client data for this tool, as well as for all of its products.
The company said it plans to roll out additional SMS program integrations with C-FOQA and scheduling providers, along with enhancements to data analysis and visualization, later this year.

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