An SMS provides management with a framework to facilitate decision-making and to dynamically shape the operating environment. Continuous improvement is a core element of every mature SMS.
Continuously monitoring environments in which your employees work remains crucial to optimal performance in all aspects of your organization's business, including safety.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation safety professionals are challenged constantly with communicating risk to stakeholders of their aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Imagine there is FOD (foreign object debris) on the runway. FOD is a hazard and there is risk associated with the hazard. For example, the risk may be a loss of life, damage to equipment, or mission delay.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation safety management systems are formal, structured methodologies for managing aviation safety programs. ICAO mandated that most aviation service providers implement SMS programs in 2006.
There are guidelines as to aviation SMS requirements that most SMS professionals are familiar with,
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Many aviation safety managers happen upon the task of "safety manager" by chance. The previous safety manager may have:
Regardless, new safety managers have a very tough task. Most aviation service providers only have the budget for one safety manager; therefore, when one suddenly leaves the company, a huge vacuum exists.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Many aviation service providers today are researching features and capabilities to acquire databases to address documentation requirements of their aviation safety management system (SMS). Alternatively, these operators are not looking to acquire an SMS database, but to:
Why are aviation SMS databases important?
Topics: Aviation SMS Database
Aviation safety managers are faced with particular challenges stemming from:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Without fail, every aviation safety manager I have met has the following attributes:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Most aviation companies are profit-driven. Aviation service providers attempt to provide safe services while providing a return on investment.
Many upper-level managers at smaller companies believe that safety managers don't need modern aviation safety management databases to manage aviation safety management systems (SMS) documentation requirements.
They may be right. Not every company should buy these SMS tools.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Aviation service providers are in business to provide a service. While some providers are government-funded, most offer their services to achieve common strategic business objectives, namely:
Every aviation service provider works with finite resources to deliver their services to align with their business objectives.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Safety managers are resourceful professionals. Their respective companies demand that they provide results on extremely limited budgets. Many times safety managers are appointed without adequate training. In these cases, safety managers are kicked into the deep end of the swimming pool.
Sink or swim, safety manager.
Most often, the accountable executive doesn't understand all the documentation requirements in an aviation safety management system (SMS).
Topics: Risk Management Software
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