Safety promotion plays a crucial role in your aviation safety culture. So when we talk about promoting your SMS, we are really talking about how to build a safety culture in your organization.
By far, safety promotion is often the most neglected portion of SMS. One, promoting the safety program is difficult, and two, it is vastly underrepresented in most aviation compliance authorities’ requirements.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
The life cycle of hazard and risk occurrence (including other types of occurrences) encompasses the entirety of an adverse event to final consequences.
The process that follows the hazard/risk occurrence life cycle is the issue management life cycle.
The issue management life cycle includes all the steps management takes from identifying an issue to fixing the issue (and beyond this, monitoring the fix).
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
The life cycle of hazard and risk occurrence is the entirety of an adverse event that happens in your company.
This life cycle has distinct stages that you can identify in any given event.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Roughly four out of every five aviation safety programs struggle with employee involvement. In many ways, the struggle is linked to the economics of SMS.
“Economics of SMS” is simply another way of saying that incentives play a crucial role in employee safety performance.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Definitions are important.
Definitions guide us and help give structure to imprecise, vague, or nebulous risk management processes.
Having an accurate understanding of definitions allows us to have an accurate understanding of the structure of issues.
Topics: Risk Management Training
Despite the having the word “economic,” the economics of SMS are not concerned with money.
Rather, the economics of SMS look at continuous improvement from the standpoint of incentives.
Incentives play a powerful role in your SMS, for better or worse. Safety programs with good incentives generally have employees who:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Safety culture is a word you see all over the place in aviation reference resources.
"Safety Culture" is used in different contexts and seemingly in very different ways.
Sometimes we say safety culture, and what we mean is hazard reporting culture. Sometimes we mean safety communication transparency. Sometimes we mean a lack of safety culture.
Leading indicators measure the safety inputs of your aviation safety management system (SMS) activities.
Safety inputs are the behaviors, attitudes, skills, and other factors that lead to safety performance outcomes.
Safety outcomes are simply how well your organization mitigates hazard/risk occurrence as they arise in your operational environment.
Key performance indicators (KPIs), also known as Safety Performance Indicators (SPIs), are data metrics used to track performance in your aviation safety management system.
In the case of KPIs, “performance” is the most important measurement to measure the success of your SMS.
Management of change in aviation SMS is a formal process for implementing system-level changes in aviation SMS programs.
By system-level, we are talking about a change that is significant enough to affect the design of your SMS.
Small changes only affect one small part of your SMS, such as single risk control, and are implemented with corrective-preventative actions (CPAs). System changes are a higher level of change that affects multiple areas of operations.
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