Policies and procedures are the central backbones of any aviation safety management system (SMS).
During aviation SMS audits, the adequacy of your policies and procedures will be looked at thoroughly. The safety of day-to-day behaviors will be greatly influenced by the quality of procedures being followed.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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:
Topics: Risk Management Training
Dedicated, hard-working safety managers drive the setup of airline and airports' aviation safety management systems (SMS).
These safety managers are often left to decipher ambiguous requirements that are open to multiple interpretations. This comes into play, especially when upper management wants to "pencil-whip" an aviation SMS and merely check the boxes.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 1-Safety Policy, 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation safety charts gather and present aviation safety management system (SMS) information to stakeholders, who can then use this information to make informed, fact-based decisions. Well-designed safety charts can take a complex idea and make it easily understandable with a simple picture, table, chart, or graph. In this case, the "report" behind the safety chart could easily be worth more than a thousand words.
A common challenge accountable executives and senior management have is monitoring the performance of their implemented SMS.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Reporting hazards, incidents or accidents grabs considerable attention in every aviation safety and risk management system. Without reported data, safety managers would be unable to continuously improve systems' processes, which is a requirement in modern aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Topics: Risk Management Software
Aviation service providers never implement their required aviation safety management system (SMS) quickly. In most cases, it will take three to five years for a medium to a large aviation service provider to completely implement their SMS.
You may scrape by in the early stages by pencil-whipping SMS requirements into shape, but an SMS is more than policies and pretty, well-formatted aviation SMS manuals.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Predictive risk management is one of the primary goals of an aviation safety management system (SMS). Predictive risk management allows operators to identify safety issues and spot trends before they result in a
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation safety managers are among the best people I've ever worked with. What does this tell you? Maybe my exposure is severely limited?
During my life, I've worked a lot with:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
The objective of an aviation quality management system (QMS) is to continually improve the level of customer satisfaction by meeting their needs.
The objective of a safety management system (SMS) is to also continually improve, but instead of focusing on customer satisfaction, an SMS program focuses on stakeholders' safety, both real and perceived.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Hazard identification training and safety reporting can be seen as the beginning of the aviation risk management cycle in aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Is this the first step in the aviation risk management life-cycle? We shouldn't say this because employees and stakeholders reporting safety issues must be trained on what type of safety reports management wishes to process.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
These two on-demand videos offer:
