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USE OF THE REGULATIONS AS A MANAGEMENT GUIDE

INTRODUCTION
1. The regulations have been designed to ensure the airworthiness of aircraft in all the missions they are likely to undertake. Thus, the regulations are quite obviously based around getting and maintaining a type certificate and other aviation-related assurances of safety. Many of these regulations may not be relevant to some design agencies. 2. Also, given the inherent danger associated with flight and the unusual operational and logistic circumstances of SAO, the single State Airwothiness regulations include a number of provisions that may be overly burdensome for some design organisations. Those organisations whose designs are extremely unlikely to have any direct impact upon the safety or operations of an aircraft may be able to use the regulations as a management guide rather than as strict direction.

USE OF THE REGULATIONS AS A MANAGEMENT GUIDE

What Does This Mean? 3. In this chapter DJTA has directed that no matter how an organisations design activities are classified, a small number of high-level requirements are held to be core and are to be adhered to by all organisations. They are: a. The classification of a design is an airworthiness decision.

b. All organisations (excluding OEMs under certain circumstances, refer Regulation 2.5.6.c(2)) performing design activities must apply for and be granted authority. c. The four pillars of design (development, review, approval and acceptance) apply to all designs. d. The design reviewer must always be independent from the developer.

e. The design agency must hold a third party quality certification to ISO 9001 or equivalent. 4. These are the only regulations applicable to organisations permitted to use the regulations in this publication as a management guide. All the other requirements in Section 2 of this publication should be used to guide the development of the organisations EMS and in particular should be used to tailor the rather generic requirements of the ISO 9001 quality standard.

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5. Use of Professional Judgement in Use of the Regulations as a Management Guide. It is impossible for DJTA to know in advance exactly how the regulations can be used to guide all the organisations currently performing design in the SAO. Thus DJTA relies upon those organisations seeking to use the regulations as guidance to employ their professional judgement in determining how they believe the regulations should be applied to their organisations. However, DJTA will assess and approve this proposed tailoring as described below.

COMPLIANCE ASSURANCE
6. All organisations, no matter the class of engineering activities they undertake, are required to apply for engineering authority. The document forming the cornerstone of this application is the Engineering Management Plan (EMP). Organisations which have assessed their design activities as falling into one of the classes allowing the regulations to be used as a management guide are still required to submit an EMP. However, this EMP may not necessarily be exactly as required by the regulations. For example, given that there is no strict requirement to comply with all the regulations an organisation of this type may chose to omit the regulation compliance matrix normally required. However, the EMP will be required to satisfy the requirement for such a document (or equivalent) contained in ISO 9001 and shall also contain: a. b. and c. the rationale for the classification of the organisations design activities; a description of how the regulations have been applied to the organisation;

the rationale for that application of the regulations.

7. Organisations that have assessed their design activities as being in one of the classes that allow the use of the regulations as a management guide will be assessed by DJTA using similar considerations and methodologies as those organisations showing full compliance. However, it is unlikely that DJTA will require on-site audits as part of this compliance assurance activity. Also, it is likely that DJTA will allow those organisations to self assess their continuing competency.

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