PAST SUMMITS

The first Safety & Quality Summit took place in 2005 in Prague. It was a smaller group and was mainly comprised of CHC Safety & Quality Managers from all around the world. However after that S&Q Summit took place, there was a thought that one of the main goals of a Safety & Quality Summit is to share knowledge and best practices. In order to achieve that goal, more professionals from all across the aviation industry should come together and share their expertise in safety practices. From this idea arose the 2nd Annual Safety & Quality Summit, which took place in 2006.

The second Safety & Quality Summit brought together over 100 participants, with combined experience from all seven continents, representing each of the Business Units within all three divisions in CHC. Sylvain Allard, President & CEO of CHC graciously backed the cost of the 2006 S&Q Summit and actively participated throughout the days of the Safety & Quality Summit as well. Dr. Scott Shappell and Dr. Doug Weigmann spoke on the theme of Human Error Management at the 2006 S&Q Summit using their Human Factors Analysis and Classification System tool (HFACS) to explain to participants how their safety performance can be improved. Guests included participants from Transport Canada, the FAA, the International Helicopter Safety Team (IHST), Shell, ExxonMobil, BP, and several others. The 2006 Safety & Quality Summit also took place over the course of three days and was well received, which prompted the Safety & Quality Department to plan another Safety Summit for 2007!

The 3rd S&Q Summit took place in March 2007 and the theme was "Building an Error Tolerant System - Human Factors in a Safety Management System (SMS)." Over 300 participants joined us for this Safety Summit, in what was the largest S&Q Summit to date! Sylvain Allard, once again, kindly covered the costs of the Safety & Quality Summit and was an active participant as well. The 2007 Summit covered a variety of Human Factors related subjects including human error in maintenance, fatigue management, change management with reference to the introduction of new aircraft types, Human Factors Analysis & Classification Systems, safety management systems and the impact of circadian rhythm on safety performance. Dr. Scott Shappell and Dr. Doug spoke again at the Safety Summit, along with several other reputable and well-known professionals such as Dr. P.T.W. Hudson, Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Leiden, Mr. Jim Burin from the Flight Safety Foundation, David Downey from the FAA, and Dr. Peter Gardner from the Southern California Safety Institute. Due to the overwhelming growth and popularity of the S&Q Summit, we have had to move the Summit location to the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver for 2008 as we’ve outgrown all other venues available currently to us.

We look forward to seeing you at the Safety & Quality Summit 2008
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" Everything was done to
an exceptionally high standard.

The Selection of topics was excellent and the CHC staff outstanding. "

Anonymous
taken from the CHC
Summit Response Form