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Annex 19 — Safety Management
Annex: SARPs and associated material
Cross-sector safety management at State and service-provider levels, supported by guidance in Doc 9859. Historical extracts require careful separation from later editions.
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Start with the scope, definitions and applicability of the exact part or volume. Distinguish a provision from a note, attachment or explanatory example. Then check the edition, amendment record and national implementation before drawing a conclusion about a real operation or qualification.
A brief source quotation
“Hazard identification shall be based on a combination of reactive and proactive methods.”
ICAO, Annex 19, second-edition historical extract, Appendix 2 §2.1.2, printed APP 2-3, dated 7 November 2019; excerpt PDF page 1. Read the official ICAO extract.
Verified source reading
Inspected local edition: 2nd, July 2016.
Passages read: Chapter 3, §§3.1–3.2, printed 3-1, PDF 21; Appendix 2 §2.1.2, APP 2-3.
State safety programme and hazard identification. ICAO catalogue now lists a third edition, November 2025; this local copy is historical.
Historical educational source. Current applicability and complete amendment status have not been established. No redistribution permission has been verified; the PDF is not hosted here.
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Hazards, risk and learning from change →
A hazard describes a condition or object with the potential to contribute to harm. Risk considers possible outcomes rather than merely naming the condition. Keeping these ideas separate helps explain why identifying an issue and deciding what to do about it are related but different activities.