Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Baldwin Safety &amp; 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&nbsp;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&nbsp;Baldwin director of safety&nbsp;Jason Starke. “It will help decision-makers understand what the organization is doing proactively to improve safety and what more can be done.”

Baldwin Tool Helps Quantify Safety Actions

Baldwin is showcasing a new program at BACE that will help quantify safety initiatives to provide a better understanding of where resources are needed.

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