SACAA Annual Report 2022_23

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4. PROGRESS TOWARDS THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ORGANISATION’S OUTCOMES

The organisation is building on the foundation established in the past strategic five-year cycle in relation to entrenching a solid safety and security culture within the South African civil aviation industry. In this regard, the organisation introduced and developed a cybersecurity strategy for the Regulator and the industry. The implementation of this project included amendments to the regulations to include cybersecurity oversight and the establishment of a multi-stakeholder forum that looks at cyber threats that may impact aviation security. The organisation also developed guidance material for the industry and has commenced conducting inspections to ensure compliance. The organisation adopted the risk and performance based oversight methodology to align with this new oversight approach from ICAO. The organisation envisages that by 2025, the surveillance and oversight plan will be based on a risk approach, and this complements the compliance-based oversight the organisation has been following over the years.

South Africa is one of the countries that have developed a State Safety Programme (SSP), and the Global Aviation Safety Programme (GASP) is premised on the effective implementation of the SSP. Therefore, the organisation developed a national version of the GASP called the Civil Aviation Safety Plan (CASP). The SACAA has recorded many milestones in implementing the CASP, including improving the state’s Effective Implementation (EI) of the critical safety elements. Before ICAO conducted the Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme in 2023, South Africa was at 87,39%, well above the global average of 67,5%. With the recent safety audit conducted by ICAO under the USOAP CMA methodology, the state increased its EI level to around 91,79%, according to the preliminary results announced by ICAO. This is well above the five-year target set by the SACAA of improving the state’s EI to 90% by 2025. The final report is is expected in September 2023.

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