The pillars of a successful air services company is its commitment to safety. Clients and staff alike expect (read; demand) a safe working environment: it's non-negotiable.

Because we take safety so seriously, we have outsourced this specialist function to Global Aviation Consultants, a professional air safety organisation for a hands-on and independent safety management.

Our Safety Management System (SMS) was designed for us to differentiate between knowing we are safe as opposed to just believing it. The flight safety records of the company are testimony to our uncompromising safety consciousness.

Some of the measures that we have taken to maintain the highest levels of safety are:

• We have comprehensive Third party and Passenger Liability Insurance that protects our clients in the event of an accident.
• International medical evacuation policies for our crews.
• Comprehensive 4-day survival packs are standard equipment on deployed helicopters.
• Location devices on all helicopters and with flight crews.
• Pilots attend in an on-going basis official Decision Making, First aid, Fire fighting and Dangerous Goods Courses.
• Any tasks not previously undertaken are comprehensively researched where innovated ideas are generated to determine the safest working practice, and then documented for future application.
• Location devices on all helicopters and with flight crews.
• All pilots are subjected to regular proficiency evaluations.
• "Real time" satellite flight tracking of the helicopter fleet.

Safety validation

• We are subjected annually to an independent safety audit by the international aviation risk management firm Hart Aviation. This not only underwrites our compliance with first-world best practices, but also our commitment to flight safety.