Welcome to the New Zealand Parachute Industry Association’s
Affiliated Operator’s Section
The objectives of the NZPIA are:
- To promote safe skydiving through education, training, certification, and other qualification programs for both individuals and operators.
- Provide advice and support to individuals and operators that affiliate with the organisation.
As an Affiliated Operator of the NZPIA you will be able to access places and have access to information and services that are not available to non-affiliated organisations and individuals.
From here you can manage your information, file your statistical information, incident reports, apply for PLA approvals etc.
You will have the ability to use the NZPIA system to contract may of the requirements of the CAA rules and have direct access to a vast amount of knowledge and experience.
The NZPIA is hoping that the information here can help you in providing good the requirements you need to both comply with current legislation and help you with your decision making in your own business or skydive operations.
Operating in a high risk activity requires information from a variety of sources, we hope that you can make use of the experience and services we can offer the NZPIA affiliated operation.
If you think there is something else we need to add, let us know.
A Positive Safety Culture
The first principle upon which all others are founded, it is characterised by an overt commitment to safety at every level of an organisation; it relies on leaders promoting and adhering to good safety practices e.g. leading by example, consistently.
Organisations with a positive safety culture are characterised by communications founded on mutual trust, by shared perceptions of the importance of safety and by confidence in the efficacy of preventive measures. Operators have a safety management system (SMS) relevant to their operation.
Safety Management System
A coordinated and comprehensive set of processes specifically designed to optimise safety performance. An SMS addresses safety across all aspects of the organisation and includes provisions for recruitment, training, safe communication, well documented standard operating procedures, internal and external assessment programmes, safety reporting, incident reporting, and emergency action plans. An SMS addresses the potential for both systemic weaknesses and active failures.