In any industry, there are bound to be mistaken. Mistakes can be either willful or unintentional, but are equally dangerous to aviation safety.
In aviation, unintentional mistakes can lead to devastating accidents, an outcome that we hope to prevent by implementing Safety Management Systems (SMS) in our organizations.
Aviation SMS implementations are expected to reduce both direct and indirect costs associated with accidents and minor incidents.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Management of change in aviation SMS is a formal process for facilitating changes in safety programs. In general, the change management process is evoked when larger, system-level changes are needed in the SMS.
Small changes are handled with corrective actions.
The basic tenants of management of change in aviation SMS are:
Safety surveys give you insight into the relationship between your employees and your aviation safety program, which includes:
Importantly, safety surveys provide quantifiable data. This allows you to:
Topics: Safety Culture
Safety objectives in aviation SMS are the markers your safety program uses to assess whether or not your safety goals are being achieved. Your safety objectives will be the basis for how you measure safety performance.
Creating safety objectives is one of the most important tasks for setting yourself up to make good safety decisions and to monitor the performance of the SMS.
Important elements to point out when discussing what safety objectives are in aviation SMS are:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
The term “mitigate risk” and “risk mitigation” is slightly misleading. This is because the meaning of the term “risk” changes depending on the context in which it is used.
Confusion also exists because different safety experts have different understandings of what “risk” means.
Risk can mean:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
A hazard in safety management is a condition that poses danger to your organization, and can lead to an accident, incident, or another mishap if not mitigates.
A hazard satisfies ALL of the following conditions:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Improving aviation safety management systems (SMS) training effectiveness is as much about understanding what it is as what it is not.
Misconceptions about aviation SMS training can have wide-ranging negative effects on SMS implementation. This becomes increasingly disturbing when one considers how poor SMS training can destroy a safety culture, which is among the most single important element of every aviation SMS
For example, safety managers who do not understand the best uses for aviation safety training cause:
Topics: Risk Management Training
Aviation safety dashboard charts automatically monitor and present aviation safety management systems (SMS) data to stakeholders, who can then use the information to make fact-based decisions.
Due to increased Internet reliability across the world, dashboard charts have become the most popular for aviation service providers to securely monitor SMS data in real time. The dashboard presents managers and users with visual representations of the aviation SMS' historical performance and alerts users of "noteworthy exceptions" that may require corrective action.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
One of the primary foundations of aviation safety management systems (SMS) is the organizational-wide, focused approach towards proactive risk management.
Risk management is a complex process that requires certain tools, behaviors, and conditions to be done effectively.
For example, effective aviation risk management requires:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Task management in every aviation safety management system (SMS) is extremely important. After all, the accountable executive will be monitoring SMS performance regularly and will be alert for substandard safety performance.
How quickly are safety tasks completed?
How many safety tasks are overdue? And for how many days? And why are these safety tasks overdue?
Topics: Risk Management Software
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