The Iceberg of Ignorance was first developed in 1989 by a consultant named Sidney Yoshida. The Iceberg of Ignorance is a model that addressed concerns about safety awareness in large organizations. This model contends that of all problems:
Topics: Safety Culture
Organizing data and information is extremely important in SMS, as much of your data analysis and performance monitoring depend on such an organization. One best practice to organize your data is assigning classifications to issues.
A classification is an organization tool. Classification is a word or a short phrase that describes the safety issue in some way.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
We generally understand a root cause as being the underlying heart of why a particular issue happens.
When aviation safety teams are reviewing, classifying, and investigating issues with root cause analysis, they are tasked with following the chain of “why” questions until they can reasonably assess why a safety issue occurred.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Even smaller aviation safety management system (SMS) are still a leviathan of
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
A hazard reporting system encompasses the processes and resources your employees will use to report concerns.
The implication here is that your hazard reporting system is the primary means by which you will acquire feedback from operations (acquire data) and improve your SMS.
A hazard reporting system is a core part of driving your:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
I was recently talking to a friend about the less spectacular points of his job as an aviation safety manager.
We talked about this and that – the various hurdles every aviation safety manager has to jump over every day.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
It’s no secret that many if not a majority of all aviation accidents are a direct result of a lack of communication. Generally, we think of lack of communication as
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
An Aviation Safety Policy is a document in safety management systems that outlines the core, important safety information that underlies your SMS.
It is the canon for your SMS.
This document should define your organization’s;
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Some of you are well acquainted with the ins and outs of aviation safety management systems and SMS software.
If you are in the other group, like me, and are only barely acquainted with what aviation SMS is and who uses it, then this article is for you.
Safety communication in aviation SMS is simply another way of sharing data.
Safety communication IS data sharing. This data sharing happens in several ways:
Topics: Safety Culture
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