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Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)

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Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 141 : Aviation Training Organisations

Subpart 8 : Declared Training Organisation

141.08.14 Safety Policy and Quality Assurance

 

(1) A DTO shall develop and implement a safety policy and apply such policy during all training activities covered therein.

 

(2) A safety policy referred to in subregulation (1) shall include procedures required for occurrence reporting and shall define, in relation to a DTO training programme, the means and methods used for

(a) hazard identification;
(b) risk assessment; and
(c) effectiveness of mitigation measures, implementation and follow-u p.

 

(3) A DTO may make use of simplified mechanisms to ensure the collection, evaluation, processing, analysis and storage of details of occurrences.

 

(4) A DTO shall develop and implement a quality assurance policy to ensure compliance with DTO accepted training programmes.

 

(5) A DTO quality assurance policy shall provide for an annual internal review and annual activity report.

 

(6) An annual internal review report referred to in subregulation (6) shall consist of an assessment whether a DTO effectively carries out its tasks and responsibilities, with specific emphasis given to the following—
(a) availability of resources;
(b) conduct of training in accordance with DTO training programmes and safety policy;
(c) random checks of training records and course completion;
(d) assessment of training programmes for adequacy and currency;
(e) training aircraft including their documents and maintenance records;
(f) aerodromes and operating sites, including associated facilities;
(g) evaluation of both adequacy and effectiveness of the follow-u p, corrective and, as applicable, remedial action taken after non-compliance that have been detected internally or that have been subject to findings;
(h) assessment of a safety policy including its means and for its adequacy and currency; and
(i) assessment of the effectiveness of implementation of mitigation measures , as foreseen in DTO's safety policy.

 

(7) An annual activity report referred to in subregulation (6), shall be submitted to the Director within a time frame prescribed in Document SA-CATS 141, and shall contain a list of—
(a) training courses and refresher trainings provided;
(b) names of all instructors involved in training with a DTO;
(c) number of students per training course;
(d) training aircraft and FSTDs used;
(e) aerodromes and operational sites used;
(f) occurrences, accidents and incidents that occurred during a training courses; and
(g) any other information that is deemed relevant by a DTO.

 

[Regulation 141.08.14 inserted by regulation 40 of Notice No. R.1503, GG45491, dated 15 November 2021 (Twenty-First Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2021)]