The Regional Management of Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation (GRIAA) is a COCESNA unit created to provide assistance and support to Member States in the development of their investigation capabilities and to contribute to the strengthening of COCESNA’s capabilities in its internal work related to the prevention of accidents.
GRIAA (REGIONAL AVIATION ACCIDENT AND INCIDENT INVESTIGATION MANAGEMENT)
Thus, GRIAA was created with a scope containing 3 approaches:
Contribute to the management of the States’ accident investigation capabilities.
Join efforts to prevent events in COCESNA, in support of the SMS.
Identify the roles of the Corporation’s units in an accident investigation.
GRIAA has configured the first approach of its scope to operate in 3 moments:
1.The first stage covers the assistance provided to States to help strengthen their critical elements, so as to facilitate the conditions for States to carry out the investigations required by Annex 13.
CE-1: Studies to the AIG legislations.
CE-2: Standardization of AIG regulations.
CE-3: National and International Agreements.
CE-4: Staff and Program Training Facilitation.
CE-5: Standardization of Procedures.
CE-8: Database, SSP Connection and Follow-up to CE-8.
GRIAA has different procedures associated with the implementation of this approach, its main tool being the Coordination Mechanism for the Activation of GRIAA.
The second moment is Monitoring, in which CENAMER Control functions as a command post due to its permanent activity and the type of information it manages, both on operations and on the shift role of the AIG specialists.
CENAMER – Command Post.
Surveillance role composed of AIG specialists designated by each COCESNA Member State.
3. The third moment is Coordination, in which the Member States activate GRIAA through this coordination mechanism, carrying out coordination tasks that facilitate the conditions for the States to carry out the investigations.
To carry out the coordination, GRIAA has signed agreements and contacts with AIRBUS, TSB Canada, ARCM, JST (formerly JIAAC) Mexico, Dominican Republic and others.
AIG Advisory Circulars
ICAO signatory States have assumed a number of responsibilities, roles and obligations related to aviation safety oversight.
To enable States to effectively discharge these responsibilities, ICAO has established the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme (USOAP), designed to assess the safety oversight capabilities of States using a continuous monitoring approach (CMA), which incorporates the analysis of risk factors associated with safety. Each State is responsible for providing all required safety oversight information according to the Critical Elements (CE), which are essential tools for safeguarding the safety of the operational system. This information must be managed through the online platform (OLF).
Considering the responsibilities of the States with respect to safety oversight and in line with a regional strategy to strengthen the AIG areas in the region, GRIAA has developed a series of advisory circulars, which aim to raise awareness among the AIG areas of the importance of keeping the information required from the States in the AIG area up to date, thus contributing to the safety oversight of each State.