In November 2006, the International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) mandated that all member states implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS). Each member state's civil aviation authority (CAA) is responsible for providing oversight to ensure the operators required to implement the aviation SMS comply.
Aviation SMS implementations need to be accounted for in 2 main ways.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Historically, quality management systems (QMS) and safety management systems (SMS) have been implemented and managed as two entirely separate entities. Today this separation persists in many if not most, companies. This is an unfortunate fact because integrating QMS and SMS provides a great opportunity for organizations to:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Fishbone diagram libraries provide many opportunities and benefits for aviation service providers who decide to adopt fishbone diagrams as a risk management tool in their aviation safety management systems (SMS).
The primary benefit of fishbone diagrams provide is detail.
Fishbone diagrams:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Risk controls in aviation safety management systems (SMS) are a company’s shield against danger and the best chance for aviation service providers to conduct operations successfully.
Danger can be many things in an operational environment, but generally, danger falls into one of the following categories:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Hazard identification and risk management are two major activities of formal, aviation safety management systems (SMS). Once the hazard is identified, the safety concern is reported to management for treatment via the SMS risk management processes. SMS risk management processes evaluate:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety accountabilities in aviation safety management systems (SMS) implementations outline the bureaucratic structure of organizational safety expectations. Defining accountabilities has the ultimate goal of clearly communicating:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Management’s commitment to aviation safety management systems (SMS) is an extremely important part of the Four Pillar’s Safety Policy component.
Without a doubt, your SMS will fail without support from senior management.
Successful aviation SMS have exceptional safety cultures that rely significantly upon strong management commitment.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
I see many misnomers about what proactive risk management is when talking in the context of an aviation safety management system (SMS).
Often one sees the proactive risk management concept clumped together with risk management in general as if they are one and the same. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Like aviation safety culture, proactive risk management is another part of aviation safety management systems (SMS) that a surprising number of people fail to truly understand. This creates missed opportunities and unfulfilled expectations that many aviation service providers can ill afford.
Setting the stage for proactive risk management in an aviation SMS is like painting a house. Safety teams
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
A hazard in aviation risk management is a condition that poses danger to your organization and can lead to safety incidents if not mitigated. Hazards are central to the entire risk management process. Often, hazards are either confused with risks (i.e., accidents) or hazardous sources. In this article, we will explore what hazardous sources are and how they differ from hazards.
First, let’s distinguish what a hazard is. A hazard is a term that satisfies ALL the following real-life conditions:
Topics: Risk Management Training
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