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
Many airlines that conduct LOSA’s internally have been confronted with a problem that has significantly affected the validity of their observations.
The problem has to do with observer calibration.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
In any industry, there are bound to be mistaken. Mistakes can be either willful or unintentional, but are equally dangerous to aviation safety.
In aviation, unintentional mistakes can lead to devastating accidents, an outcome that we hope to prevent by implementing Safety Management Systems (SMS) in our organizations.
Aviation SMS implementations are expected to reduce both direct and indirect costs associated with accidents and minor incidents.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Management of change in aviation SMS is a formal process for facilitating changes in safety programs. In general, the change management process is evoked when larger, system-level changes are needed in the SMS.
Small changes are handled with corrective actions.
The basic tenants of management of change in aviation SMS are:
Safety surveys give you insight into the relationship between your employees and your aviation safety program, which includes:
Importantly, safety surveys provide quantifiable data.
Topics: Safety Culture
Safety objectives in aviation SMS are the markers your safety program uses to assess whether or not your safety goals are being achieved. Your safety objectives will be the basis for how you measure safety performance.
Creating safety objectives is one of the most important tasks for setting yourself up to make good safety decisions and to monitor the performance of the SMS.
Important elements to point out when discussing what safety objectives are in aviation SMS are:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
The term “mitigate risk” and “risk mitigation” is slightly misleading. This is because the meaning of the term “risk” changes depending on the context in which it is used.
Confusion also exists because different safety experts have different understandings of what “risk” means.
Risk can mean:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
A hazard in safety management is a condition that poses danger to your organization, and can lead to an accident, incident, or other mishap if not mitigates.
A hazard satisfies ALL of the following conditions:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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:
Topics: Risk Management Training
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
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