System Safety Society

Eastern Canada Chapter- presented by Bob Fletcher

- on 22 August 2005

Eastern Canada Chapter

• Goal– The goal of the Eastern Canada Chapter is to

develop within our geographical area a professional focus on high quality system safety information to increase the competence and effectiveness of the people working in the System Safety profession.

Activities 2004 / 2005• held seven, lunch time events and one, half day event• developed a brochure to assist with advertising and

promoting the Chapter• developed and distributed a survey form • developed a local web site, • contacted several related organisations that host similar

events and discussed joint events• built rapport within local community to assist with future

events• provided support to the 2006 ISS conference• video taped presentations and made DVDs to distibute

Activities 2004 / 2005• Participation in the Society’s awards program

- no nominations this year; possibly next year

• Administrative meetings

- 10

• New members to the Chapter

- fell from 40 to 25 since free 1 year memberships were given at the conference; expect new members to sign up next year

• Elections

- spring 2006

• Articles

- none, plan to start a newsletter in October 2005

• Financial status of the Eastern Canada Chapter

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Financial Summary - FY2004 / 2005 CDN $ USD $

• Start - Account Balance, July 1 of FY $ 312.09 Note 1 $ 256.20

• Income for FY (Not including member reimbursement)

$11,850.83 $ 9,728.46

• Income from member reimbursement $ 286.63 $ 235.30

• Expenses for FY $ 3,674.64 $ 3,016.55

• End - Account Balance, June 30 of FY $ 8,774.91 Note 2 $7,203.41 Note 3

Note 1: Actual account balance is $1227.94 (but all are ISSC21 funds) so $0.00 are actual chapter funds. $312.09 is shown here (the

amount of Petty Cash held in Chapter Cash Box)

Note 2: Actual account balance is $84.00 less (the amount of Petty Cash held in Chapter Cash Box - the two accounts were totaled for Net

Worth)

Note 3: US value is given for information only for comparison with other chapter expenses. ECC funds are tracked and accounted for in $CDN. The two payments from HQ - $6818.74 CDN for ISSC21 ($5,880 USD) and $286.63 ($250.00 USD) for membership reimbursement are actuals based on bank deposits.

7 lunch time events1 “The Irony of Organizational Barriers to Safety Management"

with Maury Hill from the Transportation Safety Board

2 “System Safety and Airline Pilots: An ALPA Perspective” with Captain Rick Clarke

3 “Measuring Safety Performance, A Practical Approach” from Safety Projects International, Inc. by Bill Pomfret

4 “Task Analysis: A Foundation for Safety" with Jon Stuart, PhD

7 lunch time events (2)

5 “The Mid-air Collision over Constance Lake, Germany” by Kathy Fox, Vice President – Operations, NAV CANADA. Reason's model was used to identify some of the issues that contributed to this accident as well as lessons learned.

6 “Accident Investigation Without The Accident” with Mr. Michael Poole,P.Eng., Flightscape Inc.

7 "Safety Within Healthcare" with Alan Forster, M.D., FRCPC, MSc.

Colloquy - 20 May 2005 “System Safety in University, Industry and Government in

2005 and Beyond”

• “Introductory Remarks” by Mr. Merlin Preuss, Director General, Civil Aviation, Transport Canada

• “Engineering Design: Bridging the Gap Between People and Technology” by Dr. Kim Vicente, Professor of Engineering, University of Toronto

• “Technical Airworthiness in Canadian Military Aviation” by Mr. André Fillion, Director Technical Airworthiness/Aerospace Engineering Support (DTA/AES), Department of National Defence

• “Safety Engineering at General Dynamics Canada”, Mr Bob Wojcik, Airworthiness and Aircraft Installations - Air and Naval Systems ,  General Dynamics Canada

• “Concluding Remarks” by Terry Kelly, President , SMS Aviation Safety

People in Leadership

• VP - Jim Stewart

• Secretary - Heather Henderson

• Treasurer - Gerry Einarsson

• Program Chair - Ann Lindeis

• Promotions / Advertising (joined in Apr.05) - Derek Howes

• Membership co-ordinator - vacant

• President - Bob Fletcher

Plans for FY 2005 / 2006

• Presentation events– Sep.05 - Dr. Alex Richman, Algo– Oct.05 - Lydia Renton, WESA– Nov.05 - Terry Kelly, SMS– Remainder to to finalized at Executive meeting in

September 2005

• Communications– Help people who are too far away to attend sessions to

participate in Chapter activities via DVDs, telecons,video-conferencing, etc.,

Conclusion

• The Eastern Canada Chapter

– had a good first year

– the future looks good for continued growth

– will require dedication, commitment, persistence and hard work to reach the full potential of the Chapter

– team of volunteers have the skills and commitment needed to develop the Eastern Canada Chapter during the coming year