Hazard Identification Training is not just for aviation safety officers.
Every area of an organization is exposed to different types of hazards, including, but not limited to:
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We often receive questions from aviation professionals who are interested in pursuing a career as a Safety Manager.
This article should help to answer some of the most common questions.
High-quality career advice from practicing safety professionals can help you:
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Managers must take an active role in SMS to consistently improve their knowledge and experience of operations.
I believe managers need to be trained in SMS to ensure their effective participation and contribution to the SMS.
Well-constructed and well-delivered SMS training can make a huge difference in increasing managers’ understanding of the SMS and awareness of safety.
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Airports and airlines are busy places. Many inexperienced and experienced pilots and other personnel can be found hurrying about completing their tasks and missions. In such conditions, as in all aviation settings, a good safety culture is essential.
Airports exemplify many important SMS training values which help to keep pilots safe. These include:
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My field of study is aerospace management. In one path of this field alone, airport management, there are many different systems that require complex, diverse operations. Some of these systems are:
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Definitions are important.
Definitions guide us and help give structure to imprecise, vague, or nebulous risk management processes.
Having an accurate understanding of definitions allows us to have accurate understandings of the structure of issues. Furthermore, it allows us to identify specific aspects of those issues and organize the issue however we please.
Generally, this organization includes:
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A new SMS program means adopting a new safety program in your organization. This new safety program can be an entirely new risk management program where one did not exist before. This new safety program can replace an old SMS, such as in the case of switching SMS programs.
Both scenarios involve significant (if not total) overhaul to the existing way of doing things in an organization. The basic evolution of adopting a new aviation SMS program, whether it’s replacing an existing program or is entirely new, is:
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Improving aviation safety management systems (SMS) training effectiveness is as much about understanding what it is as what it is not.
Misconceptions about aviation SMS training can have wide-ranging negative effects in an SMS implementation. This becomes increasingly disturbing when one considers how poor SMS training can destroy a safety culture, which is among the most single important elements of every aviation SMS
For example, safety managers who do not understand the best uses for aviation safety training cause:
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