The WBAT Platform is a web-based system that supports all aspects of a complete Safety Management System (SMS), including safety policy, safety risk management, safety assurance, safety promotion, and SMS recordkeeping and documentation. Any organization can utilize the WBAT Platform to collect, process, and analyze safety reports, conduct audits, and identify as well as manage risk.
Modules
Employee Reporting
- Supports the submission, analysis, review, resolution, and management of Reports
- Includes the following report types:
- Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP)
- Incident (or other internal reporting)
- General safety or hazard
- Fatigue
- Line Observation Safety Audit (LOSA),
- LOSA V2 (available for any type of operation)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Flight Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT)
- Allows report submissions via a supported web browser or mobile app
- Supports the evaluation, de-identification, and verification of Reports by designated analysts prior to resolution
- Includes Corrective Actions, Recommendations, and/or Tasks to assist in Report resolution
- Provides a Meeting feature to facilitate a standard review process
Safety Assurance
- Provides tools to manage processes and procedures when evaluating compliance with your organization’s policies, federal standards, and SMS guidance
- Includes tools for:
- Audits
- Investigations
- Evaluations
- Inspections
- Utilize a checklist of questions (or requirements) that need to be answered/validated
- Allow checklists to be uploaded to create a digital checklist, attached, or manually entered
- Support the creation of one or more Findings to document concerns or non-conformances
- Accommodate adding Corrective Actions, Recommendations, and/or Tasks to a Finding to further ensure proper compliance
- Investigations
- Document a specific activity/issue that occurred, including the cause and risk, as well as mitigation measures
- Support the documentation and tracking of details about the specific activity/issue, including aircraft and equipment involved, individuals involved, costs, and location
- Accommodate adding such supporting objects as Findings, Corrective Actions, Recommendations, and/or Tasks to correct any non-compliances or mitigate hazards
Safety Risk Management
- Was designed in close coordination with the FAA to follow the safety risk management processes as outlined in 14 CFR Part 5 and AC 120-92
- Provides a systematic process to document Hazards within an organization, assess the Risks of those Hazards, design a risk mitigation strategy, and determine the adequacy of that strategy’s Risk Controls through Safety Risk Assessments (SRAs)
- Allows for routing approval (based on highest risk factor), documenting substitute risk, assessing residual risk, and performing follow-up evaluations of Risk Controls as needed
- Supports customization of the SRM process to be in line with international aviation standards
- Provides a Meeting feature to facilitate a standard review process
- SMS Implementation Manager (SMS IM)
- Offers Framework and SMS VP/Part 5 objects that provide the tools and features to manage the implementation of your organization’s SMS, utilizing the FAA’s SMS gap analysis or any other SMS implementation guidelines
- Includes Job Aids to support the completion of all FAA SMS Data Collection Tools (DCTs) to validate the implementation of your SMS
- Provides a Meeting feature that minimizes in-person documentation review by allowing the FAA inspector or other team members to review the web-based packages documented in WBAT prior to in-person validation
SMS Implementation Manager (SMS IM)
- Offers Framework and SMS VP/Part 5 objects that provide the tools and features to manage the implementation of your organization’s SMS, utilizing the FAA’s SMS gap analysis or any other SMS implementation guidelines
- Includes Job Aids to support the completion of all FAA SMS Data Collection Tools (DCTs) to validate the implementation of your SMS
- Provides a Meeting feature that minimizes in-person documentation review by allowing the FAA inspector or other team members to review the web-based packages documented in WBAT prior to in-person validation
Security & Accessibility
WBAT is designed for easy, simple sign in. Our web-based platform is compatible with any Internet-connected device, allowing users to quickly access necessary submission forms for reporting and analysis.
WBAT comes via the AWS cloud infrastructure, meaning the platform is scalable without a large investment in infrastructure and can be operated with little to no interruption of services to users.
Mobile App
With the WBAT Mobile app, submitters can start filling out a submission form from anywhere. After downloading the app and logging in while connected to a network, the submitter can disconnect from the network and complete the submission form. Once reconnected to a network, the reports can be pushed to the live system. This “offline” capability allows submitters to capture the most information from wherever they happen to be located.
The Flight Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT) that is available on the browser-based WBAT version is now available for WBAT Mobile app users.
The addition of the FRAT to WBAT Mobile makes it easier for users to assess, document, and communicate risks before an operation begins. Users are able to create and submit a risk worksheet from a supported mobile device in any location with a cellular or Wi-Fi connection.
Data Sharing
In an effort to provide an aviation-based organization with the means to share Employee Reporting module data with other industry safety initiatives, WBAT has several different data sharing options. The benefits of using WBAT for sharing data include a standard data classification as well as a simple means of applying de-identification rules or encryption to your data and then sending that data, with WBAT automatically keeping a log of whether or not your data was transmitted successfully and at what time. Transmission of data may require a signed legal agreement with UTRS but does not involve any other significant action by your organization. Following are the available aviation-based data sharing options:
- NASA’s ASRS – Data from ASAP and/or Incident Reports can be automatically transmitted to ASRS via a secure connection at the request of the submitter or by default. This determination is made by each organization and its agreement with their employee work groups. An ASAP and/or Incident Report must be submitted within 10 days of the occurrence to comply with ASRS submission requirements. A transaction number that can be retrieved by the organization’s WBAT administrator as proof of transmission is generated in addition to the receipt WBAT displays upon report submission.
- FAA’s ASIAS System – This option is available for flight crew, cabin, maintenance, and dispatch employee groups to allow the ASIAS system to automatically download de-identified data from the WBAT system into the ASIAS system. Data can then be automatically shared with all other ASIAS system participants in the industry for safety improvements, without any further action on the part of the operator.
- ATSAP/CISP – An organization has the option to share de-identified ASAP data, selected by the analyst, with CISP, which has shown to provide ERCs with a fuller picture of reported events and, in some cases, led to corrective actions regarding airport/terminal procedures. The data is securely sent to CISP via WBAT, and an entry will appear in the transaction log.
- IATA’s STEADES – This system is a database comprised of de-identified data from airlines around the world. An analyst can generate an XML file from the WBAT system to upload to STEADES (outside of the WBAT platform).
