Q5 Systems

Q5’s IDX Integration Tool

Rebekah Pynn — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:03:52 +0000

The Incident Data eXchange (IDX) is the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) safety and security incident data management program.

The IDX program is a worldwide, aggregated, de-identified database of incident reports including flight operations, cabin, ground operations safety and security occurrences. It offers a secure environment providing participants with a seamless experience to view aggregated data against standards and benchmarked with other counterparts.

Safety and security information is shown on key performance indicators, helping IDX participants to benchmark their own performance and establish safety performance targets in accordance with ICAO requirements for Safety Management Systems (SMS).

By using the Q5 software’s integration tool, the relevant information collected in the Q5 SMS software can now be seamlessly submitted to IATA’s IDX program with all the correct formatting intact.

For more information on the IATA IDX program, click here.

Report to ECCAIRS Directly From Your Q5 Site

Rebekah Pynn — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:03:52 +0000

The mission of the European Co-ordination Centre for Accident and Incident Reporting Systems (ECCAIRS) is to assist National and European transport entities in collecting, sharing and analyzing their safety information in order to improve public transport safety.

For more information on ECCAIRS, please click here.

The Q5 software now allows its customers to report to ECCAIRS directly from their Q5 site. This allows for a greater reduction in the duplication of effort in having to report a safety occurrence event twice.

Stay tuned for more new highlighted features coming in the near future!

Q5’s AVOP Module – Airside Vehicle Operations Permit

Rebekah Pynn — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:33:52 +0000

There are many types of Airside Vehicle Operator’s Permit for airports, which designate the areas where the holder is authorized to drive.

An Airside Vehicle Operator’s Permit (AVOP) certifies airport employees to operate vehicles and equipment airside. This includes, aprons, taxiways or runways, depending on the AVOP type. Tracking all of this information is critical to the successful running of an airport’s safety management program.

With the Q5 SMS software, an airport can more efficiently keep track of their issued permits, and associated certifications of both their personnel and the various equipment.

For personnel, this includes related training certifications, expiry dates, driver’s licenses, endorsements, related documents and infraction tickets.

For equipment, the software is able to track insurance, inspection reports, vehicle registrations and copies of decals.

No longer does an safety officer have to track all of this information in excel spreadsheets and document folders. Also, it enables the safety officer to significantly reduce the amount of time to run data reports. Applicable Q5SMS AVOP reports can now be obtained in seconds, not hours, or even possibly days through the manual paper/excel process.

The Q5 software also provides data reporting for tracking expiry dates for all of the above.