Aviation safety charts gather and present aviation safety management system (SMS) information to stakeholders, who can then use this information to make informed, fact-based decisions. Safety charts can also influence safety culture, either for the better or the worse.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Employee involvement in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is a major struggle for countless organizations.
The unfortunate fact – and this is something we hear regularly – is that finding good safety incentives and
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We generally think of aviation safety management system (SMS) charts as being visual representations of various pieces of safety data. This safety data commonly comes from performance-based data or classification-type data.
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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.
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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).
I don't mean to imply that agencies like the FAA, Transport Canada, or EASA are against operators using risk management software by any means,
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