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.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
A hazard in safety management is a condition that poses a 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,
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.
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?
Topics: Risk Management Software
"Safety culture" in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot and in many types of SMS conversations.
Yet “safety culture” is also a phrase that rarely receives a concise definition, and is often used to convey “a general sense of safety.”
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Operators implementing aviation safety management systems (SMS) have common questions early in their SMS implementation. How do I monitor risk to my organization within a particular time period? What report best explains the organization's interactions with:
What would be a convenient method to display aggregated risk based on assessed safety reports?
Topics: Risk Management Software
Many of the most important misconceptions about aviation safety management systems (SMS) revolve around the relationships and resistance that hurts SMS implementation.
Generally, the misconceptions about aviation SMS revolve around differences in attitudes about safety risk management. In such a case, differences in attitudes between two employees generally leave each person feeling that:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) are now an FAA requirement for part 121 certificated operators.
Without having a verifiable SMS, operators will face denial of permits and other problems. For organizations that have only lightly dabbled with an SMS and do not have a demonstrable program, they are now tasked with three things:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
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