Formally documenting your SMS means creating an “official” record of your SMS. Official records are simply aspects of your SMS that you document and save to use later, such as during review or provide to an auditor.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Proving the effectiveness of your aviation safety management system comes in several flavors. Who are you proving the effectiveness to?
Employee participation in your aviation SMS is critical to its maintainability. We do this over and over, where the SMS is being pushed by one person and when that person leaves, the program falls apart.
One of the primary goals of generating good involvement is creating a sustainable SMS.
Topics: Safety Culture
A risk matrix is a tool you will use to assess safety concerns. The matrix allows you to rank risk and provide visual cues on safety acceptability.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
ICAO’s hazard identification compliance requirements are twofold:
Being compliant with these requirements involves, like anything else in SMS, doing and documenting. You need to document your process and how you use various risk management techniques for hazard identification, and you need to follow through.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Grab a spare pen and paper so you can write down some notes. What we are looking for is a total score. It works like this:
Topics: Safety Culture
If there is one thing all aviation compliance authority guidelines (including ICAO) agree upon, it’s that your aviation safety mitigation controls need to be thoroughly analyzed BEFORE you implement them.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Confidentiality in aviation SMS refers to how much personal information should be made available to your organization. By personal information, we are mainly talking about personal information in safety reports, such as people involved or the name of the reporter.
Topics: Safety Culture
Element 2.2 of ICAO’s requirements is for you to develop and maintain a process to:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety performance monitoring and measurement is an extremely important part of Safety Assurance. It’s how you verify the safety performance of your organization.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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