NSIB, BAGAIA Partner To Improve Capacity On Safety Investigation
Oru Leonard
The Nigeria Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) and the Banjul Accord Group Accident Investigation Agency (BAGAIA), has entered into partnership in a bid to improve the capacity of safety investigation Agencies.
DG National Investigation Bureau disclosed this while speaking in Abuja at the closing of a peer review programme hosted by the NSIB, the Commissioner, Akin Olateru said the aim of the programme was to boost the capability of agencies in the investigation of civil aviation accidents and serious incidents.
He said: “Today brings to an end, the European Union (EU), EASA/ BAGAIA programme in Nigeria. Nigeria has been chosen as a pilot, We are the first to have this programme. It’s is an EU sponsored programme.
“What has been happening since Monday is basically in two parts, one is to do what we call peer review.”
Olateru explained that the peer review was to benchmark systems, processes and procedures to help see how they do things and how they can improve on the way they do things.
He added: “This part of the programme is to see how we can improve and benchmark our systems, processes and procedures with the EU standards.
“Now the second part is to train our investigators on how to carry out peer review so that we can help other nations and at the end of the day, this is to enhance safety, not just in Nigeria, but the entire African region.
“This programme is basically for collaboration. You know aviation is all about collaboration.This is the only way we can ensure consistency in maintaining that safety record.”
Earlier, the Commissioner of BAGAIA, Charles Erhuah, said the programme would enable member states meet their safety regulations and ICAO Annex 13 requirements.
He said one important achievement of BAGAIA in the last few years has been zero accident and hull losses in.
Erhuah said: “Our individual airspaces. This has improved our collective safety records, and has removed our airlines from various blacklists worldwide.
“This means our individual and collective safety recommendations are being heeded and they are helping to create a safer Airspace.”
