Employee participation in your aviation SMS is critical to its maintainability. We do this over and over, where the SMS is being pushed by one person and when that person leaves, the program falls apart.
One of the primary goals of generating good involvement is creating a sustainable SMS.
Topics: Safety Culture
A risk matrix is a tool you will use to assess safety concerns. The matrix allows you to rank risk and provide visual cues on safety acceptability.
The risk matrix is a standard tool for assessing safety issues in aviation SMS and is recommended by ICAO and other regulatory authorities for assessing issues.
You should develop your risk matrix at the onset of managing reported issues. It involves:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
ICAO’s hazard identification compliance requirements are twofold:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Grab a spare pen and paper so you can write down some notes. What we are looking for is a total score. It works like this:
Topics: Safety Culture
If there is one thing all aviation compliance authority guidelines (including ICAO) agree upon, it’s that your aviation safety mitigation controls need to be thoroughly analyzed BEFORE you implement them.
Safety mitigation controls are the bedrock of your risk mitigation strategy.
Safety mitigation controls are also commonly called:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Confidentiality in aviation SMS refers to how much personal information should be made available to your organization. By personal information, we are mainly talking about personal information in safety reports, such as people involved or the name of the reporter.
Topics: Safety Culture
Element 2.2 of ICAO’s requirements is for you to develop and maintain a process to:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety performance monitoring and measurement is an extremely important part of Safety Assurance. It’s how you verify the safety performance of your organization.
By safety performance, we are talking about:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
An aviation safety policy is a document in safety management systems that outlines the core, important safety information that underlies your SMS.
This required document should outline your organization’s;
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Apathy is the bane of any aviation safety management system (SMS).
Apathy is the most insidious kind of resistance any aviation safety manager will face. It can take many forms, such as:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
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