In 2006, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) required safety management system (SMS) implementation for most commercial aviation service providers. The list of required service providers has been expanded in recent years to include:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Most safety managers consider aligning their operation's key performance indicators with organizational objectives, such as
These KPIs are commonly
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
When the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) required a formal safety management system (SMS) implementation by aviation service providers in 2006, they didn't simply pass a ruling. ICAO offered guidance material for SMS implementation in Document 9859, now in the third edition.
All aviation safety management professionals should read Document 9859 at least once. It is surprisingly easy to read.
The best part about this "Safety Management Manual" is that the authors took a very broad and complex topic and broke it down into four components or pillars of an SMS.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Safety managers face difficult challenges when complying with the ICAO aviation safety management systems (SMS) requirements. Most airlines and airports around the world understand that they have to implement these SMS requirements.
In many parts of the world, aviation safety managers commonly lack:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
A risk control process for an aviation safety management system (SMS) entails a series of risk management tasks that are executed whenever:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Every aviation operation endures varying levels of risk, depending on ever-changing environmental conditions.
The operating environment never remains constant.
No two operations are identical.
Certain factors will always interject uncertainty and risk into the operation, including:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety managers are busy people. After all, they are constantly ensuring SMS documentation requirements are appropriately managed for all four pillars of the aviation safety management system (SMS).
It's easy to let something slip by if there are no mechanisms in place for quality assurance for your aviation SMS.
What does it mean to review the aviation SMS' safety policy?
How is this done?
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Over a dozen years have passed since the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) required aviation safety management system (SMS) implementation by the following aviation service providers:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
In November 2006, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) required the implementation of an aviation safety management system (SMS) by the following aviation service provider organizations:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
If you have been a safety manager for years now, do you remember when you first started? So many questions, such as: Where do I start?
It can be frightening to be suddenly assigned as the safety manager when you know very little about what the "safety manager" does every day. And now you have been assigned to implement a safety management system (SMS)? "What did I get myself into?" you may ask yourself.
Employees of all positions are being assigned as the safety manager, often without direct operational experience.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
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