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:
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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:
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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
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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:
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In aviation SMS, you analyze risk in order to identify how a particular issue affects safety. Based on your analysis, you can assess the safety issue, thereby ranking the level of risk and understanding what, if any, actions you need to take on the issue.
When you analyze the risk of an issue, you should be looking out for specific parts of the issue, such as:
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Leading indicators is a current hot topic in safety programs.
I’ve noticed that there also seems to be differing and even conflicting information about exactly what are leading indicators in aviation safety management systems (SMS).
I’ve seen lagging indicators equated with
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In aviation safety management systems (SMS), the accountable executive is responsible for ensuring their SMS is both:
To ensure the SMS is performing as designed, accountable executives should be regularly reviewing organizational safety performance.
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