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
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
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