They seek to optimize air safety at the regional level.

Bogotá, September of 2011. To continue declining levels of air accident in Colombia, which fell by 37%, and beyond, to improve operational safety in the country, between 2009 and 2010 the next weekend will gather in Bogota representatives of the aerospace industry related to safety management systems, who will be on progress achieved in the implementation of such global systems management Safety Management System (SMS), whose guidelines were drawn up by the Civil Aviation from the year 2009.

The International Congress of security operational of the Americas (CISOA 2011), to be held in the AR Hotel, Convention Center, headquarters Salitre, Bogotá, is organized by Synergy Group and Helicol – PAS. Successful cases of integration of different systems of management SMS in Latin America and the world will be presented.

Colombia are approximately 240 organizations that must implement the SMS: airports, centres of instruction aeronautics, organizations of aircraft maintenance, air transport operators, and air traffic service providers, explained the engineer Olga Beatriz Martínez Mariño, Coordinator for implementation of the SSP and Civil Aviation of Colombia SMS.

Colombia is a pioneer in this field, with Brazil and Chile where it already has regulations for SMS; on the other hand, since the year 2008 in Colombia have been dictated 38 courses of SMS to representatives of commercial and private aircraft, aerodromes, ATM, organizations of maintenance of national organizations, as well as it has counted with the presence of representatives of Brazil, Ecuador, Spain and Bolivia.

According to ICAO, organization of International Civil Aviation which trace security schemes in aeronautics in the world, Civil Aviation generated the year 2009 (aeronautical regulations of Colombia) RAC part 22, to be applied in Colombia, as a country, featuring particular operational characteristics such as its topography and meteorology, added Martinez.

Colombian organizations providers of services, both international and major had to submit an implementation plan, later on May 27 this year, while small and medium-sized enterprises must at the latest on 30 September.

Once accepted the plan, these companies have four years to implement the SMS taking into account that such implementation involves, among other things, a change in organizational culture which take quite some time but is accomplished, in addition to the commitment of the senior management of each organizationthrough training, awareness of organizations, and other factors that need to be developed to transform the culture and guide it to the actual operation of the SMS ”, said Martinez.

CISOA 2011 Congress will count with the presence of experts of international stature in aeronautics, as the former advisor of ICAO in SMS, Daniel Mauriñoy; Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Gabriel Acosta; the director of QSL consultants, Álvaro Cárcamo; the expert in SMS, IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audits) and ISAGO (IATA Safety Audits for Gruond Operations) company Prism, Guido sources; the director of IATA courses in programmes of quality, safety, environment and human factors, for the industry worldwide, José Joaquín Castellanos; responsible for and expert in management of high risk to international aeronautical companies, Simon Mears and SENASA Spain, Jose Ferragut, operations inspectors Coordinator.

Experts will present models of integration of SMS with different stakeholders (operators, aerodromes, ATM, command centers and airport service providers), integrated audits of aviation management systems and trends in the integration of aviation management systems; IOSA as example of integrated system, and differences in the rules applicable to the aviation industry in security