You can’t really overestimate the value and usefulness of having high-quality hazard reporting forms.
Hazard reporting underpins your ability to acquire data, which is the basis of most of the continuous improvement changes you make to your aviation SMS.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Fishbone diagrams are perhaps the best risk management tool in aviation safety management systems (SMS) for gaining a comprehensive understanding of root causes of safety incidents.
A fishbone diagram derives its name from its fishlike appearance, with a head of several fins.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
One of the most ubiquitous problems in aviation risk management is the misuse of commonly used words, in particular “hazard” and “risk.” Often, these two items are either:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Control measures are the heart of your aviation safety management system’s (SMS) risk mitigation efforts. You may call your "control measures" either:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Repeat safety incidents are extremely indicative of management’s safety performance in mitigating safety concerns.
Having repeat safety incidents is clear evidence that management is “missing” or “overlooking” something when they are correcting reported safety concerns.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
If you put 10 safety managers in a room and asked them what root cause analysis was, they would have ten different answers.
Safety professionals all say that they perform root cause analysis at some time during their risk management process. In their minds, that’s probably true.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
During the risk management process in an aviation safety management system (SMS), one of the expected tasks is to analyze the risk of hazards associated with
Topics: Risk Management Training
This article is originally inspired by a rather insightful video discussing the interplay between safety management and quality assurance.
A management system is a set of processes used to manage “findings” during operations.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Accuracy is extremely important.
Much of the bureaucracy of safety management systems depend on correct and specific understanding of safety concepts. Misunderstanding definitions in SMS is synonymous with misunderstanding what a safety element is and can compromise how that safety element is:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
“Safety culture” is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in aviation safety management systems (SMS) as a vague reference to different aspects of safety.
Understanding the meaning of aviation safety culture is less practiced in philosophy as it is recognition of what it looks like in actual practice for:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
These two on-demand videos offer:
