FAA Part 5 - Safety Management Systems has a subtle, but important requirement stuck in subsection 5.25 Designation and responsibilities of required safety management personnel. There is a subsection that packs a dynamite punch that should leave most of you reeling with uncertainty.
This requirement is buried in the subsection 5.25 (c) Designation of management personnel and deals with monitoring the effectiveness of safety risk controls.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Quickly, look at the picture at the right.
What is the "hazard?"
What is the "risk?"
I consider myself well-educated with a college education.
I understand English, as it is my first language.
Before I was dragged into the aviation safety management system world in early 2007, I really never considered hazards and risks very deeply. Back in my pre-SMS days, electrical hazard and electrical risk were synonymous.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety risks faced by service providers are affected by interfaces.
Interfaces can be either internal (e.g. between departments) or external (e.g. other service providers or contracted services,).
By identifying and managing these interfaces the service provider will have more control over any safety risks related to the interfaces.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Besides the expected airlines and airport operations, the interacting relationships across modern airports encompass many aviation industry segments, including:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
The purpose of an aviation safety management system (SMS) is to formally manage operational safety risk to as low as reasonably practical (ALARP). This objective will never be fully achieved unless aviation service providers maintain healthy safety reporting numbers.
In order to optimize safety reporting metrics, an operator must have a safety culture that
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
If you are reading this, chances are you have just begun implementing your aviation safety management systems (SMS). Or, you would like to see how your implementation plan stacks up against the suggested process for creating an implementation plan.
Either way, the important things you need to know about aviation SMS implementation plans are that they:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
The purpose of aviation safety management systems (SMS) is to ensure aviation service providers have a structured, formal process to manage safety, thereby reducing risk to the "transportation system."
Aviation SMS implementations are designed to continuously improve safety performance by:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Have you been considering the risks of moving your aviation safety management system (SMS) up to the cloud? In the past ten years, many aviation service providers have been moving their SMS data to the cloud for various reasons, but most make sound economic and business sense.
In this article, you will:
Topics: Risk Management Software
Aviation safety training and education is an essential building block for safety culture. Safety culture is understandably important for aviation service providers that are investing in aviation safety management systems (SMS). Without a healthy safety culture, SMS will never deliver the expected results and money will be wasted.
Accountable executives and safety teams must consider whether poor performance of their aviation SMS is a result of a lack of training, or a deeper, more sinister safety culture issue.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
The objectives of every aviation safety management system (SMS) is to:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
These two on-demand videos offer:
