Federal Aviation Administration

Air Traffic Organization 2014 Safety Report Federal Aviation Administration

The first priority of the Air Traffic Organization (ATO) is safety. Thanks in large part to our commitment to this priority, the U. S. National Airspace System (NAS) is the safest in the world, while also being the most efficient, diverse, and complex. We consistently meet, and often exceed, our own increasingly demanding safety performance targets. Our success in fiscal year (FY) 2014 was driven by an approach to safety management that we call "Collect, Find, Fix" This approach seeks to maximize the available pool of actionable data, use those data to identify areas of potential risk, and by analyzing and quantifying that risk, prioritize the safety initiatives we execute. Adhering to this structure, we can identify emerging issues and mitigate their effects before any serious incident can occur.