Most aviation safety professionals today are managing their aviation safety management systems (SMS) using automated tools. These full-featured SMS database tools allow safety managers to easily classify issues according to many criteria.
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
Aviation SMS audits are necessary to ensure aviation service providers comply with established guidelines. These established guidelines may come from:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation safety managers are tasked to ensure that the safety risks encountered at their operations are controlled to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP).
Modern aviation safety risk management includes:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Both new and experienced aviation safety professionals sometimes have to ask themselves, what is a gap analysis, and why am I using it?
The first thing anyone needs to understand about a gap analysis is that it is a process used by both new aviation safety management systems (SMS) and maturing SMS. This process is used by aviation service providers to determine:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Risk Assessments in aviation safety management systems (SMS) are how you qualify, quantify, and rank risk exposure for:
Risk assessments are absolutely central to decision-making in SMS, as all actions performed on the safety issue depend on the initial and subsequent risk assessments.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Monitoring the performance of aviation safety management systems (SMS) is a common activity for safety managers and upper management alike. Furthermore, in every SMS, the accountable executive is responsible for directing actions to correct substandard safety performance whenever it is detected.
How is substandard safety performance detected in your organization?
How does management know which operational areas require additional risk mitigation measures?
Topics: Risk Management Software
Aviation safety managers share many common traits, including:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
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
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion, Safety Culture
Aviation safety managers and employees who understand the real difference between reactive, predictive, and proactive risk management activities gain considerable benefit for generating good safety performance.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
We write every day about topics relating to aviation safety management systems (SMS), yet we have always taken for granted that you know what is aviation safety?
Deep down, most of us have an idea about safety. We can logically expand a safety definition to encompass the aviation industry. Yet this takes work to consider the broad implications. I've taken a few moments to discuss what is aviation safety since I've never defined it in the past.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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