Christopher Howell
Manage global operations for aviation safety management systems (SMS) software that facilitates regulatory compliance, such as ICAO, FAA, Transport Canada, IS-BAO. Manage software engineering support efforts to local Alaska businesses. Assist in design, implementation, testing and documentation of complex, three-tier Windows applications relying heavily upon secure Web services technology.
Problems With Aviation Safety Departments vs Operations
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:
- Increased market share;
- Increased financial or physical resources; or
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3-Safety Assurance
Aviation Safety Managers Need SMS Management Tools
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.
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Risk Management Software
How to Use Key Performance Indicator Statistics?
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) revolve around the four ICAO pillars:
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Key Performance Indicators
Why Monitor Aviation Safety Key Performance Indicators?
Safety assurance is the third ICAO pillar or component of aviation safety management systems (SMS). While practicing safety assurance, aviation service providers focus on safety performance monitoring and measurement. Monitoring activities include constantly reviewing the effectiveness of established safety risk controls.
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Key Performance Indicators
Aviation Safety Reporting Database Required - Spreadsheets Equal Noncompliance
Empirical evidence and results from historical aviation accident investigations have shown that accidents are often preceded by safety-related incidents that reveal the presence of untreated hazards.
These "leading indicators" are commonly known to employees and are usually not formally reported
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Risk Management Software
Aviation Safety Reporting Cultures Are Suffering
Most safety managers don't have the luxury of a healthy safety reporting culture in their aviation safety management system (SMS). Managers daily struggle to boost their monthly safety reporting metrics by up to 10% of employees, or one report per month for every 10 employees.
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1-Safety Policy
Why Use Hazard Reporting Forms in Aviation Safety Programs?
Web-based hazard reporting templates or forms are key to the healthy performance of aviation safety management systems (SMS). Safety cultures depend on well-designed, user-friendly tools to report and manage reported safety concerns.
Without user-friendly safety reporting forms, there are only a few other options for safety managers to receive hazard and safety reports from
- employees,
- customers,
- suppliers and
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Risk Management Software
Aviation Safety Managers Battling Organizational Silos
Effective aviation safety management systems (SMS) are implemented throughout an entire organization, and not merely for flight ops and airside operations.
Unfortunately, there is a major problem with many safety cultures in the aviation industry. Safety is managed at the department level or the division level of many inefficient aviation companies.
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Aviation SMS Implementation
Power of Safety Goals on Shaping Aviation Safety Culture
Goal-setting is required for every ICAO-compliant aviation SMS program. The objective of goal setting is to
- Improve an operator's safety performance;
- Shape organizational safety culture, which
- Contributes to the bottom line.
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1-Safety Policy
What Is Aviation Safety Software?
For over a dozen years, the majority of commercial aviation service providers around the world have been working towards compliance with ICAO's aviation safety management system (SMS) guidelines.
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Risk Management Software