Hazard identification and subsequent hazard mitigation strategies are critical for successful, continued operations. Monitoring which groups of employees are reporting safety issues in your aviation safety management system (SMS) allows management to stay abreast of who is involved in the SMS.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
There are several times each year when managers are interested in trending charts coming from their aviation safety management systems (SMS). These times include during:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Participants of healthy aviation safety management systems (SMS) enjoy trusting relationships between management and staff. The goal for organizational success without sacrificing safety and employee welfare is actively promoted and accepted by all.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Aviation safety managers around the world are charged with implementing required aviation safety management systems (SMS). SMS implementations affect entire organizations and not simply a single department, such as:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Aviation safety managers come and go. At the most volatile organizations, we see safety managers change every six months to a year.
The reasons safety managers leave their positions include:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety performance monitoring in aviation SMS is the primary way you will assess your safety program. This assessment happens in two different ways:
Aviation safety managers are responsible for the development, operation, and continuous improvement of our world's aviation safety management systems (SMS). Safety managers facilitate the management of all safety-related issues according to ICAO's requirements following the four pillars:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Considerable numbers of aviation managers in the United States and a few other countries groaned when ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) mandated that most aviation service providers implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Americans, by nature, are rebellious against government involvement in commercial activities.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Risk management has always been the core element of effective aviation safety programs. Before the advent of formal aviation safety management systems (SMS), aviation service providers managed operational risk in their everyday activities,
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Imagine you are the pilot recently assigned the "extra" task of being the safety manager of an existing aviation safety management system (SMS).
Or perhaps you are the safety manager who has worked hard for years and your SMS is running very smoothly. Now what?
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
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