Sat, Mar 19, 2011
Plans Are Underway To Modernize The Decades-Old Safety
Recommendations Program
The NTSB voted unanimously
this week to change its Most Wanted List Safety Recommendations
Program Board Order. The Board Order is an internal document
that provides policy guidance and establishes procedures for the
identification, development, selection and implementation of safety
recommendations on the NTSB's Most Wanted List.
"With this week's vote, the NTSB will begin a significant
transformation of one of our flagship programs, the Most Wanted
List," said NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman. "For the past 20
years, the Most Wanted List has spotlighted certain critical
transportation safety issues and the NTSB's safety recommendations
that would address them. It has been one of the NTSB's most
effective tools, but after 20 years, it is in need of a face lift
and procedural streamlining. The Board has now paved the way for
those important updates to take place."
Currently, the list contains 56 individual recommendations, many
of which have been on the list for years. The new Board Order
stipulates that future lists would be limited to a maximum of 10
issue areas, each supported by recommendations, and that the
formerly separate state and federal Most Wanted Lists be combined
into a single, comprehensive list. Board Members each year
will select the issues for the Most Wanted List by a written voting
process, and the updated Most Wanted List will be unveiled in an
annual press conference.
"The beauty of this new process is the fact that the Most Wanted
List can be changed completely each and every year, if the Board so
chooses," Hersman said. "This will go a long way to keeping
the Moat Wanted List fresh, dynamic and current for the next 20
years of its life."
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