Key performance indicators (KPIs) are data metrics used to track performance in aviation safety management systems (SMS). This “performance” was not intended to measure only safety, but also quality and financial performance as well.
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
Operation risk is a primary concern of airline safety management systems (SMS). Just as in traditional safety programs, modern SMS implementations will revolve around identifying hazards and controlling these safety events.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
We run across this time and time again in aviation risk management programs: safety management teams confuse hazards and risks, and consequently also confuse risks and consequences.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Somewhat surprisingly, in aviation safety management systems (SMS), safety objectives are often quite misunderstood. Experienced safety management may have a slightly misguided understanding of safety objectives.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Before making risk assessments, there are several important questions to ask about the issue in question. These questions are extremely significant,
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Simply put, trend analysis in aviation SMS is an activity that is used to target patterns in your safety program that might otherwise be “lost in the noise” of your safety data.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
An Aviation Safety Policy is a document in aviation safety management systems (SMS) that outlines:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
The level of measurable aviation safety performance is not the same across the world, country-to-country, or airline-to-airline. Some countries are notorious for having substandard aviation safety records
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
In any industry, there are bound to be mistakes. Mistakes can be either willful or unintentional, but are equally dangerous to aviation safety.
In aviation, unintentional mistakes can lead to devastating accidents,
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Management of change in aviation SMS is a formal process for facilitating changes in safety programs. In general, the change management process is evoked when larger, system-level changes are needed in the SMS.
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