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How to Identify Hazards and Assess Risks in Aviation SMS - With Free Resources

Posted by Christopher Howell on Oct 4, 2023 3:45:00 PM

Reactive and Proactive Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

Aviation safety managers are tasked to ensure that the safety risks encountered at their operations are controlled to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP).

Modern aviation safety risk management includes:

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management

4 Ways to Know You Are Qualified to Be an Aviation Safety Officer

Posted by Stu Martin on Sep 27, 2023 3:48:00 PM

Certification vs. Qualification

Last year my wife went to the dentist to have a filling put into one of her teeth. She had severe pain for several days, went back to the dentist, and found out that he had put the filling in backward. He replaced it with a new filling but the next day it fell out of her tooth.

We chose a different dentist this time around.

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Topics: 4-Safety Promotion

How to Use PAVE Checklist for Aviation Risk Management

Posted by Jamie Adams on Sep 20, 2023 5:00:00 AM

Understanding Proactive Hazard Analysis Process

The best way to recognize and mitigate immediate risks associated with aviation hazards is by using the PAVE checklist to analyze your current safety environment. PAVE is an excellent and expedient flight risk assessment tool (FRAT).

Each risk scenario can be grouped under a part of the PAVE checklist and can help with recognizing both the hazard and the need to react for a particular mission.

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management

How to Define Acceptable Level of Safety (ALoS) in Aviation SMS

Posted by Stu Martin on Sep 13, 2023 6:10:00 AM

What Is an Acceptable Level of Safety (ALoS)

The objective of aviation safety management systems (SMS) is to

  1. Proactively manage safety,
  2. Identify and report potential safety hazards,
  3. Determine risk to operational safety; and
  4. Implement risk controls to mitigate identified risk.
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Topics: Quality-Safety Management

4 Pillars | What Is Hazard Identification in Aviation SMS

Posted by Stu Martin on Sep 6, 2023 6:05:00 AM

Definition of Hazard Identification

Hazard identification in aviation SMS is the baseline performance needed for a successful safety program. It is the first element of the Safety Risk Management component of the 4 Pillars of aviation safety.

At face value, hazard identification is fairly simple: awareness and recognition of potential danger in the operational environment. In aviation safety management systems (SMS), hazard identification is complicated by the fact that:

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management

Audit Checklist: 10 Things to Prepare for Aviation SMS Audits

Posted by Stu Martin on Aug 30, 2023 6:05:00 AM

Things to Prepare for Aviation SMS Audits

There are many aviation audit checklists available online.

While these checklists offer many specific tasks you need to perform, few checklists offer a broad overview of things that airports, airlines, and other aviation service providers should do to augment audit performance.

The purpose of aviation safety management systems (SMS) is to continuously improve safety performance while also improving the business' operational processes.

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance, Quality-Safety Management

43 Benefits of Aviation Safety Management Systems (Proven)

Posted by Stu Martin on Aug 23, 2023 6:11:00 AM

Safety Benefits of Aviation Safety Management Systems

The most obvious benefits of implementing an aviation safety management system (SMS) are the marked improvements in safety.

Just to give you an idea of exactly how successful aviation SMS implementations have been, the only statistic you need to know is that 20 years ago there were four times as many workplace accidents as last year.

It’s difficult to get data on total workplace incidents, but I am sure that the statistic for workplace incidents last year vs.

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Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation

5 Safety Management Systems Questions You Need Answers to

Posted by Stu Martin on Aug 16, 2023 6:00:00 AM

Questions Come First in Safety Management

The unfortunate fact is that many managers in aviation safety management systems (SMS) don’t start asking serious questions until their SMS is either “stuck” or in trouble.

Questions and answers need to come at the beginning of SMS implementation. Your answers to fundamental questions about safety management will be a guideline through the entire process of your SMS' implementation.

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management

5 Components of Safety Culture in Aviation SMS - With Examples and Resources

Posted by Stu Martin on Aug 9, 2023 6:03:00 AM

What Is Safety Culture in Aviation SMS

There are many possible definitions of safety culture in aviation safety management systems (SMS). Generic definitions focus on:

  • Attitudes;
  • Behaviors; and
  • Values.

While these points certainly are a core part of safety culture, they are also unhelpfully vague.

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Topics: Quality-Safety Management

Understanding Mandatory and Voluntary Safety Reporting in Aviation SMS

Posted by Stu Martin on Aug 2, 2023 5:52:00 AM

What Are Mandatory and Voluntary Safety Reporting Policies

Mandatory and voluntary safety reporting policies are an extremely important part of providing guidance for safety reporting in aviation safety management systems (SMS). Yet, we rarely see these policies published and communicated in aviation SMS implementations.

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Topics: Safety Culture

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