Seeking Out Mistakes in Aviation SMS Implementations
Being honest about mistakes is hard.
It’s even harder to try and seek out mistakes you are making that you do not know you are making.
Being honest about mistakes is hard.
It’s even harder to try and seek out mistakes you are making that you do not know you are making.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Every aviation safety management system (SMS) contains a subsystem to manage risk associated with reported safety issues and audit findings. This subsystem can be called the SMS' risk management system as this system provides the logical workflow necessary to efficiently:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
The management of aviation safety is a shared responsibility among all levels (i.e., stakeholders) of an organization.
Top management has to set the basis for establishing
Topics: Risk Management Software
Safety performance in aviation safety management systems (SMS) can be difficult to fully comprehend because it involves so many moving parts. In general, we understand safety performance as involving the:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation safety managers need to give feedback – both praise and criticism – to employees and management regularly. It’s an essential part of their role as a leader in driving the performance of their aviation safety management system (SMS).
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
The Dirty Dozen Human Factors in aviation safety management systems (SMS) are not isolated factors.
They are an interwoven set of human actions that influence each other. And they are not all created equal.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Awareness is a great weapon for overcoming problems in aviation safety management systems (SMS). When aviation safety managers try to implement an aviation SMS while at the same time clinging to myths:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Performance vs prescriptive based approaches to aviation safety management systems (SMS) is and will increasingly be a hot topic in the aviation industry for years to come.
As it should be.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Transparency boils down to a very simple issue: information.
Specifically, control over and access to information. As I have said before, it’s a hot topic these days.
WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, Sony, the food industry – all are examples of major front-page scandals about access to information.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
It’s easy to forget just how young aviation safety management systems (SMS) are as their own defined entity. Aviation SMS has truly changed the aviation landscape, but there will certainly be more change as organizations reduce resistance to the change and continue to internalize and practice the mandated SMS regulations.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
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