Aviation service providers coordinate materials and activities of their core business model in order to achieve desired objectives. These objectives vary by industry segment type, including:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Routine work may dull your alertness.
Careless or inattentive attitudes may soon replace the caution that existed when your job was new and interesting.
Without some periodic reawakening to the ever-present hazards in the aviation environment, lethargy deepens, and chances of accidents occurring increase without us even being aware of the risk.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Airlines, airports, and maintenance organizations are still trying to understand the requirements of ICAO's mandated aviation safety management systems (SMS) that are outlined in Document 9859 Safety Management Manual (SMM).
Fully implemented aviation SMS programs require considerable work to implement AND maintain.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
I'm guessing if your airline or airport has more than 20 employees you will need a database for many of your SMS requirements.
If you don't have the budget for a database, or if you are one of those talented safety managers with excellent IT skills, then you can build your own safety database.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation safety charts provide aviation safety management teams with an invaluable visual presentation of their aviation safety management system (SMS) performance. Yet it should not be only the safety managers that should be reviewing these safety charts. The accountable executive has much more at stake.
For every SMS implementation, the accountable executive is responsible for
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
You could also say that lack of hazard and safety reporting in an aviation safety management system (SMS) can break a company.
Hazard reporting is critically important to any aviation service provider if it wants to benefit from its investment in the required and voluntary SMS. It’s equally important that aviation safety professionals have an open dialogue about what the important discussion points are and what problems are endemic to the aviation SMS.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Monitoring safety performance in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is undoubtedly one of the most important tasks you will undertake in your SMS. Regulatory requirements turn to monitoring the performance of the SMS from a "nice-to-have program" for reducing risk and avoiding accidents to a "must have and must demonstrate proof" to comply with SMS regulatory requirements.
Safety performance monitoring is integral for maintaining Safety Assurance and the integrity of your SMS program.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Every aviation safety management system (SMS) must be implemented in a top-down fashion.
There can be no other way, regardless of how liberal you think your company is.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
In early 2007, when we started designing and developing SMS Pro, I was mildly surprised that many aviation safety managers called a Web application to manage aviation safety events a "safety management system" (SMS) database.
I'm an IT guy, and when I think of a database, I'm thinking about Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, etc.
I believe the confusion comes from pilots who are used to dealing with MS Access databases.
A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) measures how effectively aviation service providers are achieving key business or safety objectives. Civil aviation authorities also use KPIs to evaluate their success at reaching safety targets.
When focusing on safety, there is a tendency of some safety professionals to use the term "safety performance indicator" (SPI) to differentiate pure business metrics from safety metrics.
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
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