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
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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:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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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Management of change in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is a complex undertaking because so often it involves performing in-depth risk analysis and risk assessments on current and hypothetical
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Bowtie analysis in aviation safety management systems (SMS) databases is a fairly new tool that is catching on with great success in aviation risk management programs. There are not many SMS databases that have the bowtie, but if you want a great risk management tool seamlessly incorporated into your hazard and risk register, then getting an SMS database with the bowtie is a great choice.
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Surprisingly, we receive questions about “airline SMS programs” and “airport SMS programs” all the time, as if they were two entirely different species of aviation SMS.
I get the feeling that the question of airport SMS vs airline SMS arises from misinterpreting what aviation safety management systems (SMS) are.
In three lines, aviation SMS implementations are:
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Like the concept of safety culture, hazard identification in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is usually taken at face value: it’s just something that happens or doesn’t happen.
While the concept of hazard identification – literally just the awareness of hazards within a system – is very simple, understanding the process of hazard identification is significantly more complex and requires careful consideration.
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