Follow-up to the Dutch Safety Board’s recommendations

The Dutch Safety Board published a report on Schiphol’s aviation safety in April 2017. In this report, recommendations were made in order to address the identified safety issues.

The ISMS sector partners worked together to follow-up on the Dutch Safety Board’s recommendations. The Schiphol Safety Improvement Roadmap contained, but is not limited to, the studies and measures which were necessary to implement the Safety Board recommendations. Depending on the results of the studies and outcomes of ISMS investigations, new additional measures that contributed to the follow-up of the Dutch Safety Board’s recommendations were added to the roadmap.

In order to keep track on the progress of the implementation of the OVV recommendations the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (I&W) initiated several evaluations.

The first started in March 2020 and was executed by the Kwink group and To70. A second one started in February 2022 which was conducted by To70 and Stratagem Consulting. The second evaluation concluded that the implementation of the majority of the recommendations was adequate. However, for parts of three recommendations it was concluded that these still needed additional follow-ups before they could be labeled as adequate.

Therefore, at the end of 2025, To70 started a third evaluation regarding these three remaining recommendations, commissioned by I&W. T070 concluded that the three remaining recommendations were implemented sufficiently by these parties to label them as adequate. With this conclusion all recommendations from the April 2017 OVV report have been resolved and the evaluation of this report has come to a conclusion.