Last Sunday, the Unified National Office of Air Observers discussed at the central headquarters of the Democratic Labor Confederation in Casablanca, international and national developments for the air navigation sector, stopping at the recent incidents that occurred in American Airpace, which revealed preliminary investigations.
According to a press communication affected by HESPRESS, the American president has made urgent decisions to increase the level of safety of air navigation, focused on the basic and essential role played by the air controller in the civil aviation system, and underlined the need to improve the conditions of training and work for air observers, considering that “meteorological control is a special profession that requires a distinction, A high intellectual level “, as said in the American president.
A document published by the National Office of Air Observer has warned against growing risks that threaten meteorological security in Moroccan airspace, jointly with the great growth of air navigation movement and promising expectations for the development of the sector, noting the emergence of air safety indicators, including the rehearsal of collision cases, which meets the major challenges of the air security system.
She also warned that the pole administration of air navigation is trying to cover these incidents instead of informing the Ministry of Transport Inquiry, responsible for increasing safety recommendations and taking the necessary measures to avoid repetition of these serious incidents.
The same communication has declared that the acute shortage of the qualified human element worsens in the absence of a clear vision or a proactive employment policy, in particular with a large number of air observers approaching retirement age, in addition to this, the deterioration of working conditions in many air control towers through the kingdom that define a serious decline, because the lowest conditions important investments in terms of administrations.
The National Office appreciated the enormous efforts made by the National Office of Airports in the preparation and expansion of airports, registered to regret continuous focus on infrastructure without there being a clear vision which invests in the update and development of the air navigation system, which constitutes the main male which ensures the growing growth of air movement.
The same source stressed that until today, no real orientation appeared to invest in modern equipment, developing air control systems and adopting advanced technological solutions that follow the pace of developments in the international level, registration of the lack of vision of working conditions and motivation, which are fundamental elements to guarantee the quality of air navigation.
The National Office of Air Observers has praised women, enjoying their continuous efforts in a vital sector in which they represent a significant percentage of the workforce, despite their confrontation with the same difficult challenges facing their colleagues, but they face additional obstacles, in particular during periods of pregnancy and friend in the absence of any serious interaction to resolve this exception repeated.
The same union office also examined the report submitted by the committee responsible for preparing for the renewal of the National Bureau, where various organizational aspects and procedures linked to this basic station were identified on union work.
The report prepared by the committee responsible for formulating the request file, which will be submitted to the administration, soon discussed, to precisely reflect the current challenges facing air observers, and defines the priorities that require urgent treatment to guarantee a working environment in accordance with the operational and professional requirements of the air profession.
The National Office of Air Observers has confirmed its constant commitment to defend the rights of air observers, calling on the administration to assume its responsibilities and to seriously engage in the solving of the problems raised, before the situation is getting more worse, and it called on air observers to mobilize and vigilant, in preparation for the various stations of struggle, in order to impose working conditions and airy of the struggle.
