Safety Promotion is definitely the least appreciated of the 4 Pillars of SMS.
Almost without fail, promoting safety takes the “back seat” in most aviation safety programs because civil aviation authorities and auditors are significantly more interested in seeing that you comply with:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
It is hard to underestimate the value that high-quality hazard reporting forms provide your aviation SMS.
Hazard reporting quite literally provides the underpinning for your risk management activities. No hazard reports...nothing for you to manage.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
If you are reading this article, chances are that you either already have started implementing an aviation safety management system (SMS), or you are considering an SMS implementation.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
The safety benefits of SMS software are not the primary reason a company initially decides to adopt the special, built-to-purpose software. If this were true, these companies would have acquired advanced SMS database solutions long before aviation safety management systems (SMS) became a regulatory requirement.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Safety culture will be the last thing to develop in your SMS.
Once you fully implement your SMS design (Phase 3 of SMS implementation), you will need to monitor your SMS to ensure it is functioning as designed.
Topics: Safety Culture
Your Safety Policy is the canon of your aviation safety program. It outlines all of the essential information anyone in your company would want to know regarding safety. It is one of the first components of your SMS that you will develop. It will be the document that you:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Something we hear about all the time is the general lack of support from regulatory oversight agencies during inspections and audits. This lack of support that safety managers complain about regards the usage of risk management software in audits that aviation service providers use daily to manage their required safety management systems (SMS).
Topics: Risk Management Software
Being honest about mistakes is hard.
It’s even harder to try and seek out mistakes you are making that you do not know you are making.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Every aviation safety management system (SMS) contains a subsystem to manage risk associated with reported safety issues and audit findings. This subsystem can be called the SMS' risk management system as this system provides the logical workflow necessary to efficiently:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
The management of aviation safety is a shared responsibility among all levels (i.e., stakeholders) of an organization.
Top management has to set the basis for establishing
Topics: Risk Management Software
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