In aviation safety management, responsibility, confidentiality, and privacy are the triad that affects how you handle reported safety information. Whether your organization is large or small, your leadership team needs to discuss these factors and decide how to handle them.
Your organization may decide that it doesn’t need to pay particular attention to this triad,
Most of us have experienced the following: sitting on the runway for over an hour wondering why the plane isn’t moving. The pilot has already apologized and given the “reason” for the delay: the daunting and nebulous “technical difficulties.”
For passengers, this type of situation is frustrating at best, and at worst unnerving, even scary.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Another aviation safety audit for your safety management system (SMS)...
The safety auditors are coming with established guidelines from:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation service providers should be aware of what level of risk is and isn’t acceptable. In other words, when you perform a risk assessment on a safety concern, what amount of risk requires mitigating actions, and what amount of risk requires no actions? What amount of risk is acceptable.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Confidentiality in aviation SMS is how much personal information is included in available safety reports and concerns. When safety issues are reported, employees may or may not have access to details about the reported issue.
Topics: Safety Culture
Let’s be real – documentation is really just a fancy word for paperwork (digital or hard copy). It can be extremely tedious.
I’ve never met anyone who looks forward to the documentation required in an aviation safety management system (SMS). That doesn’t change the fact that at every activity of an aviation SMS –
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Risk analysis is an activity that safety managers will perform on a regular basis for discovered (or potential) issues. You might identify these issues because of a hazard report or during an audit. Regardless of how you identify an issue, you will need to analyze it to understand:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
A mature, effective aviation safety management system (SMS) will always incorporate imaginative ways to stimulate teamwork and good communication between employees.
It’s a tricky area though because teamwork and communication are beset by:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion, Safety Culture
You know the old expression: it only takes one to poison the well.
We end up writing a lot about resistance to change in aviation safety management systems (SMS) because it’s something many aviation safety managers consistently deal with.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
The term risk mitigation, broadly speaking, means to try and prevent danger. You might think of it as “reducing exposure.” In general, there are four best practices employed in aviation SMS to mitigate risk, and they include:
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