Occasionally aviation safety managers will want to do a turn and pivot with the direction of their aviation safety management system (SMS) implementation. What this looks like is restructuring.
When safety managers decide to restructure an aviation SMS implementation, it means changing and updating the bureaucratic structure of the SMS and possibly some of the SMS' documented risk management processes.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
We are generally aware of the more straightforward indicators of unhealthy aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Things like:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
A true aviation SMS implementation takes years and a lot of hard work to effect lasting change. SMS implementations can take considerably longer due to:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Good aviation safety auditors play a vital role in the ability of an aviation safety management system (SMS) to identify
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation safety professionals know that the four pillars of safety management systems are the foundational idea upon which aviation safety management systems (SMS) are based.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) SRM compliance requirement for hazard identification controls every U.S. aviation service provider required to implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS). These SRM requirements indirectly affect these operators' safety culture and risk management processes whether they like it or not.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management, FAA Compliance
As airlines and the aviation industry, in general, continue to eclipse safety records year by year, a nagging question begins to crop up with increasing vigor:
To what end?
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Lagging indicators are an essential element of system performance monitoring in aviation safety management systems (SMS). Safety professionals and accountable executives should become familiar with lagging indicators as these managers are responsible for
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
Workers’ participation in aviation safety management systems (SMS) comes down to one word: reporting.
When workers are reporting, it demonstrates three things:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Proving to stakeholders that your aviation safety management system is working is simply a matter of showing that the primary goal of SMS is being achieved - namely, that:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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