Simply put, trend analysis in aviation SMS is an activity that is used to target patterns in your safety program that might otherwise be “lost in the noise” of your safety data.
Patterns can be related to behavior, occurrences, or other aspects of your safety program. Patterns are identified within your chosen time period.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
An Aviation Safety Policy is a document in aviation safety management systems (SMS) that outlines:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
The level of measurable aviation safety performance is not the same across the world, country-to-country, or airline-to-airline. Some countries are notorious for having substandard aviation safety records and some do not follow international standards, including Bangladesh, Haiti, Honduras, and more.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Aviation service providers coordinate materials and activities of their core business model in order to achieve desired objectives. These objectives vary by industry segment type, including:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Many airlines that conduct LOSAs internally have been confronted with a problem that has significantly affected the validity of their observations.
The problem has to do with observer calibration.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
In any industry, there are bound to be mistakes. 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.
Safety surveys give you insight into the relationship between your employees and your aviation safety program, which includes:
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.
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.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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