CHC Shares Safety Tools

CHC Helicopter will hold its fourth annual CHC Safety & Quality Summit from March 31 to April 2, 2008 in Vancouver, BC at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver.

The theme of the 2008 summit is “Practical Tools to build a Safety Culture: Leveraging Your Safety Management System to Reduce Human Error.”

Last year’s event attracted over 300 delegates from more than 140 aviation organizations, representing 27 countries.

There will be more than 50 workshops with speakers including:

Dr. Scott Shappell, Dr. Doug Wiegmann, human factors speakers and authors
Dr. Patrick Hudson, author and speaker on Safety Culture;
Dr. Bill Rankin, author of Boeing's MEDA program;
Dr. Peter Gardiner, the President & CEO of the Southern California Safety Institute;
David Downey, Manager of the FAA's Helicopter Directorate;
Tom Anthony, Director of the USC Aviation Safety & Security Program;
Jim Burin of the Flight Safety Foundation;
Bob Williams Chair of the Oil & Gas Producers Aviation Subcommittee

Organizations like PHI Helicopters, the Airborne Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), AAMS, HAC, HAI, FlightSafety International, Sikorsky and Eurocopter will also be presenting the best practices in aviation safety, human error management, training and more.

The key note speaker for this Summit will be Sergei Sikorsky, who will share his visual "Reflections of a Pioneer" at a Summit dinner.

Visit http://www.chcsafetyqualitysummit.com/ to register and learn more about this world class event; telephone 604-276-7500 or email safety@chc.ca.