The Air Medical Safety Advisory Council (AMSAC) is the recognition of a particularly good idea, the Helicopter Safety Advisory Council (HSAC)used very successfully by the various operators in the Gulf of Mexico. The HSAC was formed to provide a common forum where the individual operators could meet without regard to competitive issues, discuss safety matters and adopt safety initiatives for the common good. It was such a good idea that various operators in the Air Medical industry meeting after the Emergency Safety Summit of April, 2000 decided to adopt (steal) the entire concept and see if it could assist in the overall AMS safety effort.

The AMSAC was born on August 8, 2000 and continues to grow.
From the outset, the AMSAC was envisioned to be an operator driven forum dedicated to the sharing and development of safety information and initiatives for the AMS industry. It was to be an exclusionary forum as much as possible without losing its safety focus. Because it was felt that the aviation safety piece of the AMS industry was an operator responsibility, the structure is operator oriented, but the bylaws make provision to include other interested AMS entities. This organization seemed to provide the ability to secure the highest degree of input possible while restricting specific agendas from distracting the AMSAC from its primary focus, Operational Safety.

The goal is to make it safer for everyone in the AMS industry by doing those things that can be accomplished more effectively by the group rather than the individual.

The AMSAC motto states it very well, "Safety Above All".