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STANAG 4720
STANAG 4720 air traffic management safety management system
Organisations that operate, maintain or survey airfield and air traffic management facilities under the NATO publications that cite it.
STANAG 4720 is NATO's standard for Air Traffic Management (ATM) Safety Management Systems. NATO has not released it publicly; this page describes it from NATO publications whose safety annexes require full safety surveys in accordance with it.
- Edition
- 1
- Published
- 2014-09-01
NATO has not released this STANAG publicly. It is NATO UNCLASSIFIED, and organisations that need it obtain it through their national standardization authority.
What it is
STANAG 4720 is the NATO standard for Air Traffic Management (ATM) Safety Management Systems (SMS). Edition 1 was promulgated in September 2014 under the sponsorship of AVC, ATM-CNS AG, ATOMI WG, and it covers the publication AATMP-01. NATO has not released STANAG 4720 publicly, so this page describes it from public NATO publications that cite it.
Where it is cited
Six public NATO publications, AATMP-08, AATMP-12, AATMP-13, AATMP-17, AATMP-23 and AEP-56, carry the same note in the annex that lists their safety considerations. The note says those considerations, consequences and possible mitigations, listed by the STANAG/AATMP Custodian assisted by Subject Matter Experts, "are by no means exhaustive or fully applicable to all environments or situations." It then states: "Full safety surveys in accordance with STANAG 4720 NATO Standard for Air Traffic Management (ATM) Safety Management System (SMS), shall still be carried out."
The tables that follow the note show the range of subjects this applies to. They cover the visibility of LED obstruction lights to crews using NVG equipment (AATMP-08), the anchoring, visibility and markings of helipad and heliport lights (AATMP-12), low friction on runway pavement surfaces (AATMP-13), visual signals seen through NVG equipment (AATMP-17), implementing STANAG 3970 on the content and format of Flight Information Publications (AATMP-23) and the safety of airfield pavement survey teams (AEP-56). In each case the publication's own list is a starting point, and the full safety surveys in accordance with STANAG 4720 are still required.
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