Voluntary Safety Reporting Program (VSRP)

The Federal Aviation Administration Office (FAA) of Aviation Safety (AVS) sets, oversees, and enforces safety standards for all parts of the aviation industry, impacting every facet of domestic and international civil aviation safety. AVS is responsible for the certification, production approval, and continued airworthiness of aircraft as well as the certification of pilots, mechanics, and others in safety-related positions. AVS developed the AVS Voluntary Safety Reporting Program (VSRP) to work in parallel with its safety culture to address safety concerns and to increase awareness of aviation-safety-related issues. The AVS VSRP, which is detailed in FAA Order VS 8000.375 (“AVS Voluntary Safety Reporting Program”), is an online reporting tool used by AVS employees to confidentially and without punitive action or fear of reprisal report these issues that may exist across all areas of AVS.  The AVS VSRP was developed under the authority of the Federal Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act of 2020. The FAA developed this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) in accordance with the E-Government Act of 2002 because the AVS VSRP collects Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as name, email address, phone number and position/role from AVS employees. In addition, AVS employees enter information about an aviation-safety-related concern at their discretion. When filing an AVS VSRP report, AVS employees may also enter names, contact information and certificate numbers, etc. of members of the public if such information is relevant to the aviation-safety-related concern.