1. 3rdAnnual Collaborative Decision Making Conference IMPORTANCE OF CDM IN ENHANCING SAFETY PERFORMANCE
Date: st October 2016,
Venue: CSIR ICC Pretoria, South Africa
Prepared by: Matovu David. (Manager SMS/QA, CAA –Uganda)

2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE Introduction Abbreviations/acronyms
CDM and the CDM process.
Safety performance.
CDM areas in SMS
CDM areas in Safety oversight and the SSP
Conclusions
References

3. INTRODUCTION
In the implementation, operation and maintenance of the SMS, SSP and Safety Oversight within states, there are some elements/components of these system
Which require input from more than one stakeholder for their
successful implementation,
Which when successfully implemented their output always affects
more than one stakeholder,
Participation of more than one stakeholder to maintain and
continually improve, and thus need collaboration among the different
stakeholders.

4. ABBREVIATIONS/ACRONYMS
CDM Collaborative Decision Making
SMS Safety Management Systems
SSP State Safety Programme
GASP Global Aviation Safety Plan

5. CDM & THE CDM PROCESS
Definition/description of CDM.
CDM Process
Why CDM?
Global/Regional CDM initiatives
Case studies.

6. DEFINITION OF CDM
Collaborative decision-making (CDM) is defined as an explicit supporting process focused on deciding on a course of action in pursuit of articulated objectives between two or more community members

7. WHY CDM? Recommended global approach
Collaboration is one of the four safety performance enablers that states and regions can use to make improvements in safety. The other enablers are standardisation, resources and safety information exchange. [GASP ].

8. WHY CDM? Recommended global approach
A proactive approach to aviation safety requires the participation of all concerned stakeholders. Based on the need for a coordinated and transparent approach for aviation safety, ICAO continues to foster collaboration with its Member States and other global aviation stakeholders.

9. WHY CDM? Associated benefits of employing CDM
Collective responsibility.
CDM facilitates resources sharing
CDM provides for sharing and protection of information critical to safety performance
List can be endless.

10. SAFETY PERFORMANCE
Safety performance of any organisation, state, region or globally depends primarily on the effective implementation of the SMS (Service providers) and SSP/Safety oversight (States and regional safety oversight organisations). Ie before one can measure safety performance, there needs to be in place a an effective safety management system or framework or mechanism for managing safety. Successful and effective implementation of some components/elements of the safety management systems require active involvement of more than one aviation stakeholder.

11. SAFETY PERFORMANCE
Safety performance measurement covers the implementation, maintenance and continuous improvement of the SMS.
Application of CDM to enhance safety performance can be achieved through;-
Active application of CDM, and/or
Use of collaboratively agreed procedures.

12. CDM AREAS IN SMS IMPLEMENTATION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
Coordination of emergency response planning.
Safety risk assessment and mitigation.
Safety performance monitoring and measurement.
The management of change.
etc

13. CDM AREAS IN SSP IMPLEMENTATION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
State safety Policy and Objective.
State Safety Legislative Framework.
Accident and incident investigation.
Agreement on the service provider’s safety performance.
Safety data collection, analysis and exchange
etc

14. CONTINUOUS SAFETY PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
Continuous safety performance improvements depends on the successful conduct of internal/external audits, evaluations and surveys. Continuous safety performance improvement relies on the effective audit processes which in turn require collaboration between the auditor and auditee.

15. CDM IN SAFETY PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT
Development of Safety objectives.
Development of Safety Performance indicators.
Development of Safety performance targets.

16. WAY FORWARD
In order to ensure effective safety performance, organizations
need to incorporate CDM process so as to facilitate successful
implementation of specific elements of SMS or SSP.
There is need for the aviation fraternity to collectively agree
on and document areas of SMS and SSP that require CDM to
ensure safety performance.
Contributions from conference participants.

17. REFERENCES Safety Management Manual, ICAO Doc 9859 3rd Edition 2013
2014 – 2016 Global Aviation Safety Plan, ICAO Doc 9971
2013 – 2028 Global Air Navigation Plan, ICAO Doc 9750
Global ATM Operational Concept, ICAO Doc 9854
Report to National Civil Aviation Review Commission (Testimony
of Chris Pear Manager of Flight Dispatch Operations, United
Airlines by Rich Falcone Manager Technical Operations American
Airlines)

18. Thank You.