The mission is to facilitate the identification and mitigation of hazards at the local level through the use of collaborative Local Safety Councils. Partnership for Safety supports local collaborative efforts between FAA Management and NATCA to develop solutions to identified safety issues. The Local Safety Council's composition and processes are determined locally by the Air Traffic Manager and NATCA Facility Representative.

Local Safety Councils collaboratively identify and mitigate local safety hazards. They will review safety issues and perform post occurrence analysis at the direction of the Air Traffic Manager and NATCA Facility Representative, to determine systemic causal factors and risk.

A Local Safety Council is comprised of, as a minimum:

• one management representative and one union representative

as designated by the NATCA Facility Representative and the Air Traffic Manager.

A minimum of one management representative and one union representative will make up the LSC with additional representatives being designated by the parties at the local level, through mutual agreement.

LSCs should meet once per month or as mutually determined by the parties at the local level.

Local Safety Councils convene to explore and develop mitigations/propose solutions to locally identified operational safety concerns.

Local Safety Council activity depends upon the scope of the change. Potentially an LSC could recommend changes in the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Letters of Agreement (LOAs), or other operation procedures. The LSC may also recommend and sponsor a Safety Risk Management Panel (SRMP) in order to perform a formalized safety analysis of identified hazard(s).

The PFS Website is designed as an all in one destination for accessing and sharing information. The goal is to create a resource that supports the development and functionality of Local Safety Councils. The PFS tools that can be accessed through the website are the Safety Data Portal and the ATC infoHUB.

The Safety Data Portal and the ATC infoHUB are restricted sites that can only be accessed by active members of the LSC.

Each new LSC member does go through the same coordination process. We utilize the information from the website, LSC Changes, to solicit concurrence from both the Air Traffic Manager and NATCA Facility Representative for each new member.

The website serves as our method of tracking, and using them is the most expedient way of adding new members. This automation also ensures that each of us, whom are jointly responsible for coordinating training logistics, receives and is working with, the same information.

As personnel fluctuate, identifying the current Air Traffic Manager/NATCA Facility Representative ensures that we are soliciting concurrence from the correct individuals.

The PFS Team is working to complete the validation process and establish your user accounts. A confirmation request has been sent to both the ATM and FACREP. Once they reply with their concurrence, we create account credentials for each active member within a few business days and update our records accordingly.

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