Flight Structures is proud to announce that our system for Safety Management was approved last week. We were scheduled to have our on-site audit in April 2020 but that was delayed one year to April 2021 due to the Covid19 pandemic. We were pleased to gain this acceptance with no findings.
The advantage of the delay meant that the SMS has become embedded in our operation and culture. We are also pleased that Matthew Tighe was accepted as a Senior Person within our organisation, with responsibility for Quality and Safety matters across the organisation.
It is an important year for us, with our CAANZ 146 and 148 Certificates being up for renewal in 2021. We have passed stage one of this renewal (onsite audits of our facility and work packages), with no findings in either the design or manufacturing organisation.
Kudos needs to go to the whole team who have worked very hard to ensure we passed these important milestones, but in particular to our three Senior Persons under CAANZ, CEO and Delegate Jon Kerr, Delegate Duncan Wollen, Prototype and Manufacturing Manager Brett Purchase, and Quality and Safety Manager Matthew Tighe, who pulled it all together.