Baldwin Safety & Compliance has developed an Accident Prevention Effort (APE) program to help business aviation operators track and benchmark their safety initiatives. To be showcased next week at NBAA-BACE 2022, the APE software is designed to help organizations quantify their efforts and better assess where additional actions or resources might be needed.

As part of Baldwin’s Safety Management Systems program, APE sets a numeric baseline for the organization’s safety programs and monitors for trends and areas of possible improvement. The program assigns values to safety activities, Baldwin said. For example, an Emergency Response Plan drill may have a higher value than submitting a safety report.

Baldwin noted that the APE concept is derived from the Quantum Safety Metrics method as introduced by D. Smith, president of the International Society of Safety Professionals. It evaluates the number of preventions and what is known as a “Sierra Scale” to determine a cumulative APE value. APE can be tailored to the size, complexity, and safety priorities of an organization.

“Businesses often focus on measuring outputs or outcomes without measuring the safety activities that could positively influence those outcomes. Baldwin’s APE is an important tool to do just that,” said Baldwin director of safety Jason Starke. “It will help decision-makers understand what the organization is doing proactively to improve safety and what more can be done.”