Thankfully, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) SRM compliance requirement for Risk Analysis is fairly clear.
The "Risk Analysis" component description in the Advisory Circular provides most of the information you need to fulfill the requirement.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management, FAA Compliance
Finding quality aviation safety management systems (SMS) training can be tricky.
Like any industry, the aviation industry is rattled with subpar training courses. Generally, these SMS courses are subpar because for consistent reasons. Mainly, this is because new training courses are usually modeled after existing courses from the traditional safety program, which means the new courses inherit the same mistakes in the regurgitated or recycled materials.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Underlying causes in aviation safety management systems (SMS) are the bridge between reactive and proactive risk management.
Underlying causes are the “input” for safety issues because they reinforce the actions and behaviors that cause incidents to happen.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation service providers around the world have been devoting considerable resources to implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS). Each of these SMS implementations requires safety performance monitoring and measurement of critical data elements.
Clearly, many elements and risk management activities that makeup SMS' performance. Where does a safety manager start?
As I’ve discussed before, “safety culture” gets thrown around rather loosely in the aviation industry.
"Safety culture" is the kind of thing that is vitally important, but so undernourished in terms of actually discussing what it means and what it looks like, that you sort of roll your eyes and with a wink and a nod say, “Oh yea... safety culture.”
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
In most aviation safety management systems (SMS), the single most important factor for superior risk management capabilities often, unfortunately, receives the least attention: a mature safety risk culture – which we can confidently say is the collective risk management attitude of an organization.
Experience and research tell us that the risk attitude of employees significantly influences whether an aviation SMS delivers the level of safety that it promises.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
When I first forayed into the aviation industry, the first thing I learned was that the aviation industry is far more than simply flying.
While flight schools' primary goals are to prepare future pilots to be successful, a critical part of that success includes safety.
When it comes to how flight schools can use aviation safety management systems (SMS), there are 2 things to consider.
First, by their very nature, flight schools operate with considerable, daily risk.
Topics: Risk Management Software
I’ve never much cared for the phrase “Human Factors.”
It has a negative edge to it that unfortunately has tended to bleed into the mindset of many aviation SMS implementations as the “Human Problem” - the thing that needs to be fixed. Just look at the fact that the 12 Human Factors are called "The Dirty Dozen.”
When Human Factors in aviation SMS are viewed as a problem to be controlled, the natural result is to focus on rule-based, prescriptive methods of containing the risk that humans pose.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
As you may already know from our previous post, our FAA SAS Profile provides the collection of tools that aviation safety professionals need for assessing their certificates' safety assurance requirements.
Our SAS Profile tool can help:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Flight Standards Service (AFS) Safety Assurance System (SAS) is the new oversight system for 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) parts 121, 135 and 145. Ultimately, SAS will be used for other applicable CFR parts.
SAS is not a separate safety standard and does not impose additional requirements on certificate holders; it provides aviation safety inspectors (ASI) with standardized protocols to evaluate certificate holder programs required by regulations to be approved or accepted.
These two on-demand videos offer:
