Aviation Safety Reporting System:

The Aviation Safety Reporting System is the result of a joint effort of FAA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Battelle Memorial Institute, and it is maintained at Battelle Laboratories in Columbus, Ohio. This is a voluntary reporting system, where air traffic controllers, pilots, and others can submit accounts of aviation-related incidents. The system became operational on April 15,1976, and contains around 500,000 aviation-incident-related reports to date. 

The reporting form of the Aviahon Safety Reporting System is specifically designed for gathering the maximum amount of information without discouraging reporters. Additional information on the system is available in Wells and Rodrigues [6]. 

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NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System Staff Human factors associated with altitude alert systems. NASA ASRS Sixth Quarterly Report, NASA TM-78511, July 1978. 

Source Adapted from Roundtable Discussion on Design Considerations for a Patient Safety Improvement Reporting System, sponsored by Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System, and the National Quality Forum, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffitt Field, Calif., Aug. 28-29,2000. 

Reynard, W. D., Billings, C. E., Cheaney, E. S., and Hardy, R. The Development of the HASA Aviation Safety Reporting System. Houston National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1986. 

Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) (4) Developed by the National... 

Incident reports were taken from the Aviation Safety Report System (ASRS) database report set. The Global Positioning System (GPS) report set features 50 incidents involving the use of GPS devices for the period 2004 through 2006. This report set can be found on the ASRS website . The ASRS collects, analyzes and responds to aviation safety incident reports that have been submitted voluntarily by pilots, controllers and others. Due to the voluntary submission of these reports it has a reporting bias and represents only a certain group of pilots. 

Aviation Safety Reporting System. (2007). ASRS database report set global positioning system (GPS) reports . 

Harper and Helmreich (2003) consider that the use of reporting programs can be traced to the development of the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) and more recently, has been further encouraged by the Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP). 

In the U.S. aviation industry, the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) has been collecting confidential, voluntary reports of close calls (near miss incidents) from pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers since 1976. The system was established after TWA Flight 514 crashed on approach to Dulles... 

The Patient Safety Reporting System (PSRS) is a program modeled on the Aviation Safety Reporting System and developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to monitor patient safety through voluntary, confidential reports. 

Aviation Safety Reporting System—http //asrs.arc.nasa.gov/... 

FAA Federal Aviation Administration, 2010, DOT/ FAA/AM-10/13.2013. Office of Aerospace Medicine, Causes of General Aviation Accidents and Incidents Analysis Using NASA Aviation, Safety Reporting System Data, Washington DC, U.S. Department of Transportation press. 

Example 1 Figure 13.5 shows an analysis of the incentives that the different participants in the US Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) receive. ASRS is a system for the reporting of incidents and human errors for use in accident prevention. To promote reporting, the following measures have been taken ... 

Reynard, W.D., 1986. The development of the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System. NASA, Reference Publication No. 1114, Mountain View, CA. 

NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System, P.O. Box 189, Moffett Field, California... 

Aviation Accident/Incident Reporting System Aviation Safety Reporting System Air Carrier Statistics Database... 

Past experience indicates that the commimication between air traffic controllers and pilots is subject to various types of errors. In fact, as per a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) study of 386 reports submitted to the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) during the period from July 1991 to May 1996, the pilot-controller communication errors can be grouped into four types [18] ... 

Cardosi, K., P. Falzarano, and S. Han. 1998. Pilot-controller communication errors An analysis of Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRA) Reports. Report No. DOT/FAA/AR-98/17. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Washington, D.C. 

NASA. (2013). Aviation Safety Reporting System Program Briefing. Moffett Field, CA National Aeronatics and Space Administration ASRS. 

Some solutions have been found to the problem of protection for employees who make reports. A number of legislative frameworks (no blame, no shame) protect staff who make reports in certain countries (particularly the United States and Denmark ) in many industrial and service sectors. For example, for 25 years the national aviation safety reporting system in the United States (ASRS—Aviation Safety Reporting System) has protected the aviation professionals who report their errors by guaranteeing them anonymity and rendering legal prosecution impossible. Similar systems now exist in the medical domain. 

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