Advanced Aviation SMS: Seek Permission Before Focusing on SMS Profits
Advanced Aviation SMS: Generating Profits - First Steps
Topics: Aviation SMS Database, Safety Culture
How to Review Management of Change Interfaces in Aviation SMS
Aviation SMS Provides Structure to Safety Initiatives
An aviation safety management system (SMS) provides service providers with risk management processes that are:
- Globally accepted by the aviation industry;
- Structured and documented to ensure repeatability;
- Implemented organization-wide; and
- Monitored internally and often externally to assure compliance.
These structured, repeatable processes are custom-designed to satisfy each company's "operational risk profile (ORP). An ORP is a list of hazards, risks and mitigation measures unique to a certain operator based on their aviation industry segment, size and operating theater (where they operate).
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
How to Discover Hidden Value in Your Aviation SMS
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 2-Safety Risk Management
Burnout: The Career Plague
Burnout is especially common in the aviation safety industry. I’ve seen it happen to young and older safety managers. I’ve seen it happen to safety managers who were early and late in their safety careers.
Burnout is not picky about whom it possesses, meaning that burnout's scope of victims naturally exceeds aviation safety professionals.
Aviation SMS Surveys - Most Neglected Safety Promotion Tool
The Creative: Interesting Surveys and Promotion
Unfortunately, safety culture surveys are often not high on the priority list of aviation safety management system (SMS) implementations. And judging by surveys that I have seen, they are often written with the candor and creativity of a Driver’s Education manual.
Which is too bad...
Because fun, creative, regular, and *short* safety surveys can be a truly fantastic addition to a safety manager’s bag of tricks.
Make no mistake, if done well, safety cultures benefit from safety surveys significantly by:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
3 Scenarios for Accountable Executives to Minimize Risk to Aviation SMS
Accountable Executives' SMS Nightmare
In most cases, aviation safety managers are:
- Dedicated;
- Hard-working;
- Resourceful; and
- Excellent communicators.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
How to Develop Healthy Safety Reporting Cultures in Aviation SMS
Making It Personal
Every continuously-improving safety program will fail when employees are not involved in identifying and reporting safety hazards. Getting workers to participate in their aviation safety management system (SMS) is all about making the SMS personal. People care more about things that directly involve and matter to them.
An aviation safety manager functions as the primary bridge between an SMS implementation and the employees – he/she IS the force of “personal.”
The safety manager is responsible for influencing safety reporting cultures.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
FAA Part 5 - Monitor Safety Risk Controls in Aviation SMS
Do You Really Understand Safety Risk Controls?
FAA Part 5 - Safety Management Systems has a subtle, but important requirement stuck in subsection 5.25 Designation and responsibilities of required safety management personnel. There is a subsection that packs a dynamite punch that should leave most of you reeling with uncertainty.
This requirement is buried in the subsection 5.25 (c) Designation of management personnel and deals with monitoring the effectiveness of safety risk controls.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
4 Advantages Safety Managers Acquire Using Aviation SMS Software
No Comparison to Pushing Paper by Hand
Most of us grew up using good old fashioned pen and paper for just about everything. In fact, for most things, I still prefer it over using my phone or computer.
It’s quick, it’s natural, it’s something we can touch and feel.
But frankly, comparing pen and paper methods to software for managing documentation requirements of formal aviation Safety Management Systems (SMS) is the difference between driving a trusted old pickup and a Formula 1 racing car.
Topics: Risk Management Software
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