Setting up and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) in existing aviation safety management systems (SMS) can be a daunting task. This especially applies to first-time safety managers or safety managers new to a company who are taking over an existing aviation SMS.
Such safety managers have many questions like:
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
A safety management system is, at its core, a business approach to safety. This means that, with SMS programs, you manage safety with similar methods for other parts of operations like quality management. It is a systematic and proactive approach to managing risk that includes:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
The layperson's perception and understanding of risk is something that tends to make aviation safety professionals slightly indignant. In order to be successful in the aviation safety field, safety managers must intimately understand the core elements affecting operational safety, including:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
The actions employees take immediately in response to an emergency will greatly affect the outcome of the emergency. In such situations, employees’ actions may largely be the deciding factor between catastrophic consequences and a scary but benign outcome.
Consequences can be
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
If you want to practice reactive, proactive, and predictive risk management in aviation safety management systems (SMS), you first and foremost need to understand the difference between these types of risk management in modern aviation operations.
Understanding what each type of risk management is does not involve just understanding the “conceptual” difference, but how each practice differs in the actual operational environment.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Federal Aviation Administration Part 5 requirements are modeled after the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). They set the standard upon which many oversight agencies around the globe model their standards. In general, Part 5 requirements are specific enough to provide direction but flexible enough to allow aviation SMS programs and airline SMS programs the ability to adapt to those requirements.
Part 5 requirements are organized into 4 interconnected pieces, each of which comprises one of the 4 Pillars of SMS:
Topics: FAA Compliance
SMS Pro offers over 20 pre-configured hazard reporting forms to fit data acquisition needs for the safety reporting system of most aviation safety management systems (SMS).
These reporting forms are mobile responsive, which means that they look good on any sized screen, whether it’s an iPhone, your Android mobile phone, or a large desktop screen.
Topics: Risk Management Software
How aviation safety managers conduct oversight is extremely important for the success or failure of the aviation safety management system (SMS).
The particular management style of a safety manager determines how willingly employees will interact with aviation SMS. Will they sincerely accept the demands placed on them by the SMS? Or will they rebel silently and look for ways to subvert the SMS?
What kind of style do you use as a safety manager?
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
The FAA’s SRM Risk Control component is the 5th and final element in the Safety Risk Management process.
The Risk Control component is the phase in which you will bring hazards and hazards’ risks into an acceptable level of safety.
Topics: FAA Compliance
The FAA’s SRM Risk Assessment element is the 4th component in the Safety Risk Management Process. This process is outlined in the Advisory Circular and is based on the 4 Pillars of SMS.
The FAA's SRM Risk Assessment will naturally result from the SRM Risk Analysis component.
Topics: Risk Management Software, FAA Compliance
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