Why Review Safety Policy & Objectives in Aviation SMS Programs?
Aviation safety managers share many common traits, including:
- detail oriented;
- hard driven;
- professional;
- self-starters (high initiative); and
- good communicators.
Aviation safety managers share many common traits, including:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Safety culture in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is usually defined as being the safety attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and values of employees in an organization. Unfortunately, such a high-level, conceptual definition of safety culture does not help safety manager address core personnel challenges in your organization's SMS.
In much of the SMS guidance material pushed out by regulatory agencies and standards-setting bodies, such as ICAO's document 9859 Safety Management Manual,
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion, Safety Culture
We write every day about topics relating to aviation safety management systems (SMS), yet we have always taken for granted that you know what is aviation safety?
Deep down, most of us have an idea about safety. We can logically expand a safety definition to encompass the aviation industry. Yet this takes work to consider the broad implications. I've taken a few moments to discuss what is aviation safety since I've never defined it in the past.
I'm hoping to share a few insights and I am also hoping that other industry experts will expand upon this often-overlooked definition.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation management personnel and employees who truly understand the differences between hazards, risks, and different types of controls are more effective at preventing accidents and reducing costs related to preventable accidents and incidents.
Furthermore, hazards and risks are most commonly misunderstood by safety managers who need to either create or review their company's hazard and risk registers.
Can you easily tell another employee the difference between a hazard and a risk?
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
During the issue management life-cycle, safety managers commonly conduct initial and residual risk assessments on reported issues. In most cases, the risk is a combination of both:
Occasionally, you will see organizations that also include "exposure" as a third dimension to their risk assessment.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation service providers coordinate materials and activities of their core business model in order to achieve desired objectives. These objectives vary by industry segment type, including:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Routine work may dull your alertness.
Careless or inattentive attitudes may soon replace the caution that existed when your job was new and interesting.
Without some periodic reawakening to the ever-present hazards in the aviation environment, lethargy deepens, and chances of accidents occurring increase without us even being aware of the risk.
You may not always recognize the importance of recurring safety training. Yet, this training benefits us all in many ways.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Airlines, airports, and maintenance organizations are still trying to understand the requirements of ICAO's mandated aviation safety management systems (SMS) that are outlined in Document 9859 Safety Management Manual (SMM).
Fully implemented aviation SMS programs require considerable work to implement AND maintain. If you are like most aviation service providers, your company is trying to implement a multi-year project on a shoestring budget.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
I'm guessing if your airline or airport has more than 20 employees you will need a database for many of your SMS requirements.
If you don't have the budget for a database, or if you are one of those talented safety managers with excellent IT skills, then you can build your own safety database.
In this article, we demonstrate how you can design your own safety database within an hour or two.
So let's get started.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation safety charts provide aviation safety management teams with an invaluable visual presentation of their aviation safety management system (SMS) performance. Yet it should not be only the safety managers that should be reviewing these safety charts. The accountable executive has much more at stake.
For every SMS implementation, the accountable executive is responsible for
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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