Phase 3 of Aviation SMS implementation is largely about implementing your Safety Risk Management process. Your SRM process is where you document and design your safety management system. Designing your SMS is a two-step process:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 2-Safety Risk Management
Human Factor Complacency is one of the most important Human Factors in aviation safety that you need to be aware of.
Complacency can happen when you are feeling satisfied with your level of safety, and it can happen when you are apathetic to your own safety level.
Complacency is the cause of countless safety incidents because of things like:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Aviation safety risk management programs are on a spectrum of regression, stagnation, or improvement. What condition is your SMS?
Is your aviation risk management program dying? The truth is that it can be hard to know the current status of your SMS.
Change happens slowly. You may think that your SMS is improving nicely, but then a year later your safety performance is struggling, and you don’t know why. We see it happen with regularity.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
In aviation safety, SMS design is the framework upon which operations run safely.
SMS design is encapsulated in the Safety Risk Management pillar of the 4 Pillars of SMS. Implementing the design of your SMS will be the first major accomplishment of your safety program.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) is a very simple, but remarkable process for driving improvement in the design of your aviation SMS.
Here are the main points of PDCA:
The various parts of PDCA are:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Phase 2 of SMS Implementation is largely dedicated to documenting foundational, core, elements of your safety management system.
The result of implementing Phase 2 is an SMS Safety Policy that all employees can reference to understand:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Phase 1 of Aviation SMS implementation involves activities that lay the groundwork you will need to begin implementing other parts of your SMS, such as critical processes and policy.
Phase 1 of aviation SMS has the goal of answering like:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Tracking employees' documents and records is one of the most important documentation tasks aviation service providers have. This is especially true in the case of pilots, where poor record-keeping can result in regulatory fines.
Most aviation service providers manage their record keeping manually, such as in:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Aviation service providers are well aware of the importance of tracking pilots’ records and documents.
At any given time, an aviation service provider may have dozens of records that require action. Especially when these records are being documented in something like an Excel spreadsheet.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
SMS design is the foundation of your safety program. It is the Safety Risk Management pillar portion of the 4 Pillars of SMS.
When building your safety program, establishing a thorough, encompassing design will be the first major milestone of your SMS.
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