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:
Risk management tools in aviation SMS is simply a vague term that refers to resources that can help you manage risk. Often, the most beneficial resources tend to be simple, inexpensive, and helpful for both providing guidance and helping you organize your time.
By “simple tools” we are talking about risk management tools like:
Risk tolerance is simply how much risk you are willing to accept. High-risk tolerance is generally not a good idea because it means that you are willing to “tolerate” or “accept” a high degree of risk for performing tasks.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) have the objective to:
Furthermore, an aviation SMS affords operators more opportunities to identify safety issues and spot trends before they result in "The Accident."
Fatigue is one of the most important factors in overall operational safety. It’s so important that most aviation safety management systems adopt additional and specific measures to combat fatigue. Fatigue risk management includes:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 2-Safety Risk Management
The aviation industry relies heavily on computers for every touchpoint of aviation service, from ground to flight operations. Cybersecurity is a term that refers to the safety of such computer systems – it is also called info-security. If nefarious individuals were able to get access to some of your computer systems, they could pose a catastrophic threat to flight operations.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy, Quality-Safety Management
Proactive aviation risk management is an organizational-wide effort towards identifying risk and mitigating hazards before an incident occurs.
For an aviation safety management system (SMS) to get to the point of proactive aviation safety, there will be considerable upfront work required.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Having "real-time" safety charts saves aviation safety managers, executives, and employees a lot of work and keeps them informed of the latest hazards and risks affecting aviation-centric operations.
Having access to real-time safety charts allows management to monitor your SMS program at a glance, rather than having to navigate through your software
Topics: Risk Management Software
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