FAA Part 5 compliance for Safety Policy is largely the concern of new aviation SMS programs.
Safety Policy requirements are mainly fulfilled in the first phase of aviation SMS implementation. Fortunately, the FAA’s compliance guidelines on this SMS Pillar are very clear, and well outlined.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Safety objectives in aviation SMS programs 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. Important elements to point out when discussing what safety objectives are in aviation SMS are:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
The primary objective of risk mitigation strategies in aviation SMS programs is usually detailed as being a plan to implement risk controls that reduce the likelihood/severity of each identified specific risk. However, this risk mitigation plan in limited in that it does not address the mitigation of hazard occurrence.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation SMS training can be hard on organizations, both financially and logistically. As organizations grow, the logistical and financial headache will become more pronounced, especially as resources are stretched thin.
The financial problem of aviation SMS training is not simply that training costs money, but it also pulls workers away from their duties. Attempting to coordinate substitutes and training times is an additional logistical/financial burden. The answer to these burdens is to automate aviation SMS training.
Topics: Risk Management Training
Aviation risk management slippage is an extremely important concept in aviation SMS programs.
Safety managers need to be aware of what this concept is, and what it looks like in the operational environment. In short, risk management slippage is a subtle, passive hazardous situation whereby:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
If you want to practice reactive, proactive, and predictive risk management in your safety program, you first and foremost need to understand the difference between these types of risk management. Understanding what each type of risk management is does not involve just understanding the “conceptual” difference, but how each practice differs in the actual operational environment.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Risk Analysis is the core of an aviation SMS program’s risk management and safety assurance processes. In short, it is the core element in Risk analysis is an activity whereby safety management qualifies a safety concern. In other words, risk analysis
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Somewhat surprisingly, safety objectives are often quite misunderstood. Experienced safety management may have a slightly misguided understanding of safety objectives.
New safety management will simply ask, what are safety objectives? Do you know how to properly describe safety objectives?
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Let’s talk about airport SMs programs. While there are many overlaps between safety management systems for airlines and airports, each has several distinct needs.
Airport SMS programs have very complex needs, which have a tendency to incorporate many more quality management needs than aviation SMS programs.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Creating the 4 Phases of aviation SMS implementation is one of the great contributions that ICAO has made to the quality development of safety management systems. The 4 Phases of implementation provide a framework and road map service providers can follow to build a high-functioning safety program.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
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