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
"Safety risks faced by service providers are affected by interfaces.
Interfaces can be either internal (e.g. between departments) or external (e.g. other service providers or contracted services,).
By identifying and managing these interfaces the service provider will have more control over any safety risks related to the interfaces."
ICAO Safety Management Manual (SMM), Document 9859 4th edition
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Besides the expected airlines and airport operations, the interacting relationships across modern airports encompass many aviation industry segments, including:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
The purpose of an aviation safety management system (SMS) is to formally manage operational safety risk to as low as reasonably practical (ALARP). This objective will never be fully achieved unless aviation service providers maintain healthy safety reporting numbers.
In order to optimize safety reporting metrics, an operator must have a safety culture that continually promotes safety and encourages employees to report every potential safety issue, whether the issue is real or imagined. The rule of thumb should be "report everything and let the safety team determine the level of safety risk."
"Proactive safety culture" in aviation SMS simply denotes an operational environment whose employees and resources actively act upon likely safety concerns that have been identified and reported for risk management review.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
If you are reading this, chances are you have just begun implementing your aviation safety management systems (SMS). Or, you would like to see how your implementation plan stacks up against the suggested process for creating an implementation plan.
Either way, the important things you need to know about aviation SMS implementation plans are that they:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
The purpose of aviation safety management systems (SMS) is to ensure aviation service providers have a structured, formal process to manage safety, thereby reducing risk to the "transportation system."
Aviation SMS implementations are designed to continuously improve safety performance by:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Safety culture in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is usually defined as being the safety attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and values of employees in an organization. Unfortunately, such a high-level, conceptual definition of safety culture does not help safety manager address core personnel challenges in your organization's SMS.
In much of the SMS guidance material pushed out by regulatory agencies and standards setting bodies,
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion, Safety Culture
Have you been considering the risks of moving your aviation safety management system (SMS) up to the cloud? In the past ten years, many aviation service providers have been moving their SMS data to the cloud for various reasons, but most make sound economic and business sense.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Aviation safety training and education is an essential building block for safety culture. Safety culture is understandably important for aviation service providers that are investing in aviation safety management systems (SMS). Without a healthy safety culture, the SMS will never deliver the expected results and moneys will be wasted.
Accountable executives and safety teams must consider whether poor performance of their aviation SMS is a result of lack of training, or a deeper, more sinister safety culture issue.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
The objectives of every aviation safety management system (SMS) is to:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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