Medium-Term Target and Status of Specific Activities
The ANA Group is working to pursue and provide the "World’s Highest Safety Standard." This means providing safety, which we must ensure as a company, and security, which is created as a result of providing customer safety. By doing so, we ultimately enhance trust, which is earned through the accumulation of our steadfast daily efforts on the safety and security fronts.
We strive to ensure safe aircraft operations as a matter of course. We are also pursuing a variety of other forms of safety in the group’s business, including the safety and security aspects of food services, cargo, and information. We are constantly mindful of the fact that safety today does not guarantee safety tomorrow. With this in mind, we will continuously pursue safety and security in order to earn public trust.
Medium-Term Target for Safety and Update on Progress
Under the medium-term target for safety, we aim to zero out the number of aircraft accidents and serious incidents. We remain focused on personnel development and organization building, with a view to shifting our safety activities from reactive to proactive and predictive.
In addition to developing human resources that are able to spread awareness and proactively consider measures to prevent a recurrence of safety issues, we will continue to pursue safety by approaching safety matters sincerely and with humility. One way we will do this is by preserving the memory of past air accidents and hijacking incidents. To foster a safety-conscious atmosphere and culture along these lines, we conducted safety tour events at 43 airports and offices in Japan and overseas in the fiscal year ended March 2015. These events were attended by 1,976 employees. Remarkably, around 300 employees took part in three safety lectures given by Osamu Shinobe, President & Chief Executive Officer of ANA.
We continue to focus on providing emergency evacuation training, a program initiated in 2012 using a mock-up of an aircraft, and holding ANA’s Day, an event held since 2013 in which all ANA Group employees learn about the history of accidents and unsafe events at the ANA Safety Education Center.
We have newly introduced the Change Management approach for corresponding to State’s civil aviation Safety Programme for Japan (SSP). Starting a new process, changing a pre-existing process or discontinuing a pre-existing process increase the risk of mistakes and failure. The Change Management approach provides a framework for predicting the potential safety risks associated with these three changes, developing appropriate responses and countermeasures and managing the process itself.
Since September 2014, the ANA Group has also participated in the Safety Trend Evaluation, Analysis & Data Exchange System (STEADES), a safety program established by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). By sharing information with overseas airlines through this program, we intend to pursue the “World’s Highest Safety Standard. E
Information Security
In the ANA Group’s operations, personal information about customers is indispensable for providing satisfactory service. We consider the information we receive from customers as a valuable asset and handle it with utmost care.
We make maximum effort to properly manage and appropriately use customers’ personal information, educating officers and employees thoroughly about laws and internal rules concerning personal information, and maintaining internal systems to protect it. We will work diligently to ensure that personal information is managed properly and used appropriately.
• We introduced a self-check system of the status of compliance with information security rules, implemented annually and covering all group companies.
• To impart knowledge on information security and ensure it is reliably implemented, we regularly provide education in an easy-to-understand format using e-learning.(Four times during the Fiscal Year 2015)
• In the Fiscal Year 2013, we conducted site visits and interviews by a specialized team, mainly targeting departments of group companies that deal with the personal information of customers.
• In the Fiscal Year 2014, the ANA Group will establish an Information Security Center in each group company that possesses information security skills and expertise.