This is an exciting article. We share concrete tips and tricks to modify your aviation safety management system (SMS) in this Advanced Aviation SMS series. To date, this advanced series has been focused on a financial business theory supported by science and technology.
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) are not simply regulatory requirements but a "new way of doing business."
"Yeah, we've all heard these ambiguous praises before," I hear you saying.
Smaller aviation service providers have adopted a not-so-secret weapon that can provide financial benefits, but they are not using it effectively.
Aviation SMS possesses extremely powerful risk management workflows that can level the playing field for smaller operators with business acumen.
When the drafting founders of modern aviation safety management systems (SMS) planned to improve systemic aviation safety, these managers understood their industry's predominant attitudes relating to safety vs production.
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) needlessly continue to remain unprofitable after almost fifteen years.
Your aviation SMS also fails to produce profits. Why?
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, Quality-Safety Management
Many newly-appointed safety managers try to single-handedly push their organization's aviation safety management systems (SMS) to success. Safety managers are hired to perform an ambitious undertaking that is not heartily welcomed by the entire organization.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 1-Safety Policy, Quality-Safety Management
Does your aviation SMS make money? Probably not.
Why not? Most aviation SMS failures result from operators consistently neglecting to follow the prescribed aviation SMS recipe as originally designed.
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) are designed to be implemented in a top-down managerial style for some "not-so-obvious reasons." For one reason, the "accountable executive" cannot accurately be considered "accountable" when safety initiatives and budgets exist beyond their direct control.
For most operators implementing regulatory compliant aviation safety management systems (SMS), their primary business goal was obviously regulatory compliance. Otherwise, thousands of aviation service providers would have initiated aviation SMS before ICAO's November 2006 mandate.
Topics: Aviation SMS Database, Safety Culture
An aviation safety management system (SMS) provides service providers with risk management processes that are:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
These two on-demand videos offer:
