Within the ICAO-IAC Regional Project RER/01/901 “Development of Operations Safety and Continuing Airworthiness” with the support of Airbus Company a two-day Maintenance & Engineering Safety Awareness Seminar (MESAS) took place from the 24 to 25 May 2016 in the Interstate Aviation Committee. The Seminar was attended by over 100 aviation specialists from CAAs and airlines from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

Presentations were delivered by IAC experts as well as by those from Airbus, Moscow office of VERITAS, Air Astana, training centre Aviator.

During the Seminar the topics were discussed as follows:

-         Data sharing and communication;

-         MMEL, MEL;

-         MEL in practice & safety implication;

-         Lessons learnt from in-service maintenance experience;

-         Tooling black market & associated safety concerns;

-         Contribution of maintenance planning to safety;

-         Structural damage reporting & recording

-         Safety oversight and safety management systems in the fields of Maintenance & Engineering;

-         Reporting & Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs) and associated challenges;

-         SMS Implementation at Aircraft Maintenance Training Organisations.

During the discussion speakers answered the questions from CAA and airlines representatives.

The participants expressed their wishes concerning the topics of the future seminars.

At the end of the Seminar all the attendees were given certificates and the materials of presentations on CDs.