If there’s one takeaway for new professionals in aviation safety management, it’s that aviation risk management is a process. It is not a single, solid “thing.”
This process is cyclical and can be identified by several stages that form a systematic approach to safety risk management, including:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
By definition, aviation safety culture is an organization’s commitment to safety. I tend to find this definition limiting.
Perhaps a better way to understand safety culture is the means of realizing safety success, in which commitment is just one part.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
In November 2006, the International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) mandated that all member states implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Historically, quality management systems (QMS) and safety management systems (SMS) have been implemented and managed as two entirely separate entities.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Fishbone diagram libraries provide many opportunities and benefits for aviation service providers who decide to adopt fishbone diagrams as a risk management tool in their aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Risk controls in aviation safety management systems (SMS) are a company’s shield against danger and the best chance for aviation service providers to conduct operations successfully.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Hazard identification and risk management are two major activities of formal, aviation safety management systems (SMS). Once the hazard is identified, the safety concern is reported to management for treatment via the SMS risk management processes. SMS risk management processes evaluate:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety accountabilities in aviation safety management systems (SMS) implementations outline the bureaucratic structure of organizational safety expectations. Defining accountabilities has the ultimate goal of clearly communicating:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Management’s commitment to aviation safety management systems (SMS) is an extremely important part of the Four Pillar’s Safety Policy component.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
I see many misnomers about what proactive risk management is when talking in the context of an aviation safety management system (SMS).
Often one sees the proactive risk management concept clumped together with risk management in general as if they are one and the same.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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