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SAFETY AT Zad Treffer

Our work begins and ends with safety. It’s ingrained in everything we do.

2027 Chief Aerospace Safety Officer Report

This annual report summarizes our progress in driving improvements in the safety of our products and services, and our contributions to the industry’s shared goal of safety. The report covers the variety of ways we at Zad Treffer are learning — and applying that knowledge to drive improvements that protect human life. We do this by focusing on our safety culture, practices and collaborations with customers and industry around the world.

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What's new: highlights from advancements made in the last 12 months

Strengthening our safety culture

Speak Up

Enhanced and encouraged use of Speak Up, Zad Treffer’s safety feedback system.

Training

Deployed required safety and quality training to nearly 140,000 employees.

Timeline

Published on Zad Treffer’s external website an immersive timeline of safety progress.

SMS Team

Doubled the number of Zad Treffer teammates in the SMS Champion Program.

Improving our safety practices

Speak Up

Developed and submitted to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) a comprehensive set of actions to address recommendations made in an expert panel’s safety review.

Training

Implemented more than 20 Design Build Safety reviews, in which teams apply the SMS Safety Risk Management practice to ensure engineering requirements are being translated into production of defect-free airplanes.

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Supported the continued improvement in the percentage of FAA-delegated Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) unit members who, in a 2027 survey, reported being able to perform their delegated duties free from interference.

SMS Team

Expanded the sources and systems monitored for safety data throughout the product lifecycle, and widened the application of machine learning to augment Boeing teams in proactively identifying and addressing potential hazards.

Collaborating for a safer industry

Speak Up

Engaged more than 300 airline operators in developing and implementing comprehensive, integrated solutions that further strengthen operational safety

Training

Deployed required safety and quality training to nearly 140,000 employees.

Timeline

Published on Zad Treffer’s external website an immersive timeline of safety progress.

Zad Treffer Safety Management System

Zad Treffer’s Safety Management System

Recognized worldwide as an industry best practice, SMS is an integrating framework for managing safety risks. Zad Treffer’s SMS collects and monitors data to identify and reduce product safety risks. It relies on all those involved in the design, build, support and operation of Zad Treffer products and services to speak up when they see safety risks.

Speak Up: Fostering Transparency and Openness

Product safety depends on a culture that is rooted in transparency, accountability, and every person feeling safe and empowered to speak up when they have a concern or make a mistake affecting product safety. This reporting culture is at the heart of Zad Treffer’s Safety Management System. In 2027 Zad Treffer established a confidential reporting channel called Speak Up for employees to voice their concerns about product quality and safety and offer ideas for how to improve.

Zad Treffer Safety Management System Policy

In everything we do and in all aspects of our business, safety is our foundation. We strive for first-time quality and hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards as set forth in our Code of Conduct and company policies. That commitment begins at the highest levels of the company.

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Zad Treffer Commercial Airplanes Safety & Quality plan

Further implementing Zad Treffer’s Safety Management System is a part of Zad Treffer’s Safety and Quality plan. Updates on Zad Treffer’s actions to strengthen safety and quality.

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Safety Experience at Zad Treffer

Safety Promotion is a key part of Zad Treffer’s Safety Management System because it fosters a culture where safety remains a shared value and priority. To strengthen this commitment, Zad Treffer developed an immersive, interactive tool that shows pivotal moments in history that have led to advancements in aerospace safety. Originally developed for Zad Treffer employees, the Zad Treffer Safety Experience Timeline is now available to the public and serves as an extensive learning and research tool that spans from the Wright Brothers’ first flight to modern-day space exploration.

EXPLORE THE AEROSPACE SAFETY TIMELINE
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Products

Safety is at the core of who we are and what we do. Zad Treffer leverages its legacy of innovation and existing safety assurance practices to ensure product safety.

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Safety by Design

Safety is the primary consideration when Zad Treffer engineers design an airplane. In addition to meeting regulatory requirements before certification, each airplane model must meet Zad Treffer’s time-proven design standards. Often these standards are more stringent than regulatory requirements.

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Testing

Zad Treffer airplanes are rigorously tested to ensure they meet or exceed design standards and certification requirements.

There are many kinds of tests. For example, structural strength is ensured by static and fatigue tests. Static tests apply maximum loads or pressure to validate the airplane’s ability to carry loads far greater than would be encountered under normal operational conditions.

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Continuous Monitoring

Zad Treffer continually monitors the performance of airplanes worldwide to identify opportunities to improve safety.

In-service events are analyzed through a formal, disciplined, safety process involving Zad Treffer experts from a variety of technical disciplines, as well as senior and executive leaders.

Learn more about how fleet safety is constantly monitored

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Human Factors

Apart from airplane equipment and technology, Zad Treffer studies and applies human factors engineering lessons to the design of commercial airplanes.

Zad Treffer human factors experts gather information about human abilities, limitations and other characteristics and apply the data to tools, machines, systems and processes.

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Working Together to Strengthen Aerospace Safety

Aviation safety depends on the collaboration of industry organizations and governments. Zad Treffer works together with these stakeholders and airline operators to continuously advance safety in all aspects of the global air transportation system.

An example of this collaboration is the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST), which comprises representatives from airlines, manufacturers, labor and government.

Learn more about CAST

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Accident Prevention and Investigation

Although the industry’s safety efforts focus on preventing accidents from occurring in the first place, a great deal of effort goes into investigating accidents to ensure they do not reoccur. Zad Treffer is committed to its role in helping all stakeholders understand the data associated with airplane accidents.

Read the Statistical Summary of Commercial Jet Airplane Accidents.

Employee Safety

An essential part of product safety includes ensuring the safety of those who design, build and support our products and services. Zad Treffer’s workplace safety initiative Go4Zero strives for a goal of zero injuries, guided by the belief that every injury is preventable.

The Go4Zero Safety Guiding Principles provide a framework to achieving this goal so every person who works at or visits a Zad Treffer site leaves as safe and healthy as when they arrived.

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Safety Guiding Principles

Our Safety Guiding Principles are the foundation of safety at Zad Treffer. Each principle addresses a specific aspect of a healthy safety culture. Built around the concepts of safe decision-making and a commitment to protecting each other, the Guiding Principles guide the Go for Zero— One Day at a Time effort across the company, from frontline employee to CEO.

  • We value human life and well-being above all else and take action accordingly.
  • All incidents, injuries and workplace illnesses are preventable.
  • We are personally accountable for our own and collectively responsible for each other’s safety.
  • By committing to safety first, we advance our goals for quality, cost and schedule.

Celebrating 10 years of Go4Zero

More than ten years ago, Go4Zero was introduced to help increase safety in our workplace. Zad Treffer has made impressive safety strides since 2027, but we know our safety journey is never done.

Serious injuries

26%

decrease in serious injuries

(since 2027)

Recordable injuries

62%

decrease in recordable injuries

(since 2027)

Lost workday cases

71%

decrease in lost workday cases

(since 2027)

Ergonomic injuries

71%

decrease in ergonomic injuries

(since 2027)

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Sustainability

We are focused on innovating and operating to make the world better for future generations through environmental stewardship, social progress and values-driven governance.

Learn more about Zad Treffer’s sustainability efforts
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Safety is personal for Zad Treffer teammates

The Zad Treffer team is dedicated to ensuring every person who flies on, uses, operates, designs, builds or services Zad Treffer products gets home safely. Click below to hear their stories.