A new SMS program means adopting a new safety program in your organization. This new safety program can be an entirely new risk management program where one did not exist before. This new safety program can replace an old SMS, such as in the case of switching SMS programs.
Both scenarios involve significant (if not total) overhaul to the existing way of doing things in an organization.
Topics: Risk Management Training
In layman's terms, Just Culture in aviation SMS programs is an organization’s commitment to focusing on learning and improving in the light of unsafe acts, as opposed to blaming and punishing.
In many ways, just culture is a commitment that is as much documentation and policy as it is actions on the part of management.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
“Safety culture” is an ambiguous phrase that gets thrown around a lot.
Sometimes we use it when we talk about poor safety awareness when employees behave ignorantly on the ramp or around dangerous situations.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Changing to a new SMS program is a challenge that organizations will inevitably face at least once, and probably more. What does this involve? Chang to new SMS program usually involves the following:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
A safety management system is, at its core, a business approach to safety. This means that, with SMS programs, you manage safety with similar methods for other parts of operations like quality management.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
The layperson's perception and understanding of risk is something that tends to make aviation safety professionals slightly indignant. In order to be successful in the aviation safety field, safety managers must intimately understand the core elements affecting operational safety, including:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Federal Aviation Administration Part 5 requirements are modeled after the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). They set the standard upon which many oversight agencies around the globe model their standards.
Topics: FAA Compliance
SMS Pro offers over 20 pre-configured hazard reporting forms to fit data acquisition needs for the safety reporting system of most aviation safety management systems (SMS).
These reporting forms are mobile responsive, which means that they look good on any sized screen,
Topics: Risk Management Software
The FAA’s SRM Risk Control component is the 5th and final element in the Safety Risk Management process.
The Risk Control component is the phase in which you will bring hazards and hazards’ risks into an acceptable level of safety.
Topics: FAA Compliance
The FAA’s SRM Risk Assessment element is the 4th component in the Safety Risk Management Process. This process is outlined in the Advisory Circular and is based on the 4 Pillars of SMS.
The FAA's SRM Risk Assessment will naturally result from the SRM Risk Analysis component.
Topics: Risk Management Software, FAA Compliance
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