Safety Days 2025: Folgore promotes aviation safety culture
At the Pisa Parachute Training Centre, the second edition of the Safety Daystraining and information days focused on aviation safety.
The Folgore leads the second edition of Safety Days
The event involved the departments of the Parachute Brigade 'Folgore and the Defence Specialised Units with Airborne Capability (USCAD), reaffirming the ongoing commitment to the promotion of a security culture in the military and operational sphere.
The activity, developed and conducted by the Study and Experience Office (USE) of the Folgore - a Defence technical body with specific expertise in aviation - represented an important opportunity for professionals in the sector and highly specialised operators to meet. As emphasised by the Commander of the Folgore Parachute Brigade, Brigadier General Federico Bernacca, the initiative constitutes 'a training moment of fundamental importance, sharing and stimulating, down to the lowest organisational levels, awareness of the importance of a safety culture'.
During the symposium days, crucial aspects of planning and conducting aviation activities were analysed in detail, with specific focus on safety procedures, risk identification, and mitigation measures derived from real experiences. Great emphasis was placed on the analysis of malfunctions, hazard events and accidents, as well as lessons learnt from such situations. The participants - including parachutists qualified in both the Tethered Rope and Freefall techniques - held key roles as Jump Directors, Parachute Instructors and technical operators with specific qualifications and authorisations.
Safety Days, an important opportunity to discuss with USCAD colleagues the importance of a safety culture. In an increasingly dynamic operational context, the interchange of experiences, reflections and analyses between specialists in the field enables the strengthening of collective awareness and the consolidation of common and shared operational standards, thus fostering integration and interoperability between the various Defence components.
Common standards and carry-over culture: aviation safety as a collective goal
The initiative highlighted the need to maintain a constant focus on every phase of aviation activities, promoting scrupulous compliance with standard procedures and the rigorous application of preventive measures. The common goal is to minimise the risks arising from human error, technical failures or adverse environmental conditions, while ensuring maximum operational effectiveness.
In this context, Colonel Giovanni Piantadosi, Head of the Studies and Experience Office, emphasised the strategic value of the Safety Days as a 'tool for collective growth and the maturing of professional awareness, aimed at making people understand the importance of the so-called 'culture of reporting''. Such a culture, he explained, consists of the voluntary and transparent sharing of information on critical events, which is indispensable to continuously improve safety protocols and prevent the recurrence of incidents in training or operational contexts.
The symposium also fostered collaboration between national departments and USCAD, providing fertile ground for the exchange of experience, doctrinal alignment and the definition of common standards. It is precisely this synergy that allows the Folgore Brigade and its specialist departments to remain at the forefront of aviation safety management, both in a training and operational context.
The Studies and Experience Office, certified to the standard ISO 9001:2015It plays a major role in the design, experimentation and testing of aviation materials and procedures. Its competences include the development of equipment and technical systems for the aviolanchistic employment of the personnel and materials of the four Armed Forces, as well as the analysis of damage and malfunctions in the operational environment, also through the comparison with similar national and international technical bodies.
The 2025 edition of the Safety Days is thus confirmed as a pivotal initiative in the Italian Army's training landscape. Through targeted training, the accurate study of incidents and the establishment of a shared safety culture, the Folgore once again demonstrates its commitment to ensuring high operational standards and maximum protection of personnel employed in the most complex and risky activities.
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Born Alessandro Generotti, C.le Maj. Parachutist on leave. Military Parachutist Patent no. 192806. 186th RGT Par. Folgore/5th BTG. Par. El Alamein/XIII Cp. Par. Condor.
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