Spreadsheet-based safety programs are incredibly common. Many of you reading this use spreadsheets to manage your SMS.
Spreadsheets are a legacy of a time after the advent of computers, where Excel offered a major improvement over paper-based SMS, but before the days of aviation safety software.
Topics: Aviation SMS Database
This article is originally inspired by a rather insightful video discussing the interplay between safety management and quality assurance.
A management system is a set of processes used to manage “findings” during operations.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Risk tolerance is simply how much risk you are willing to accept in a given activity, task, situation, etc.
High risk tolerance is not good.
Low risk tolerance is good, as it means that people will only allow a limited amount of risky behavior. No more risk should be tolerated than necessary for completing a task.
Topics: Safety Culture
Safety culture will be the last thing to develop in your SMS.
Once you fully implement your SMS design (Phase 3 of SMS implementation), you will need to monitor your SMS to ensure it is functioning as designed. Aviation safety programs with good safety cultures usually operate as designed.
Topics: Safety Culture
We talk with aviation safety professionals and business executives every day about their struggles with implementing and managing an SMS.
Inevitably, all aviation safety programs will reach a point of growth where it is getting too much to handle.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Aviation safety cultures are the attitudes, behaviors, and actions that drive safety performance in your SMS.
Safety culture includes how management supports safety, and what front line employees do when no one is watching.
Topics: Safety Culture
There are two general aspects of safety management systems that encompass due diligence of the entire SMS: SMS design and actual safety operations.
Practicing due diligence means ensuring that the design closely matches reality.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Aviation risk management tools are designed to help you manage exposure in your SMS. Managing exposure involves a lot more than just risk analysis.
To properly keep exposure within an Acceptable Level of Safety, you need risk management tools that address all areas of the SMS 4 Pillars.
Topics: Aviation SMS Database
Becoming a better safety manager involves looking at how you are currently managing your SMS, and seeing where you can optimize your ability to:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
An emergency response plan is a manual that companies use to address many different types of emergency situations.
The manuals include:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
These two on-demand videos offer:
