Since November 2006, most aviation service providers have been required to implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS). In order to assure compliance, aviation SMS oversight is provided by:
Topics: Risk Management Training
Have you been considering the risks of moving your aviation safety management system (SMS) up to the cloud? In the past ten years, many aviation service providers have been moving their SMS data to the cloud for various reasons, but most make sound economic and business sense.
In this article, you will:
Topics: Risk Management Software
The actions taken within the first 5 minutes of an emergency can largely dictate the severity of consequences. In this case, “severity of consequences” can involve catastrophic financial, environmental or material damage, and/or major loss of life.
Employees need a plan of action to count on when emergencies strike in order to minimize damages.
An emergency response plan is a manual that companies use to address many different types of emergencies.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Aviation safety training and education is an essential building block for safety culture. Safety culture is understandably important for aviation service providers that are investing in aviation safety management systems (SMS). Without a healthy safety culture, SMS will never deliver the expected results and money will be wasted.
Accountable executives and safety teams must consider whether poor performance of their aviation SMS is a result of a lack of training, or a deeper, more sinister safety culture issue.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Risk in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is a tricky subject. Not only is it treated differently in different organizations, but safety professionals tend to get up in arms in front of differing opinions.
The truth is that “risk” is a terribly nebulous word and concept, with multiple ways to use it. What’s important is NOT that you “know what risk is” so much as you “define what risk means to your organization.”
Here are multiple ways that “risk” is used in the risk management industry,
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
The objectives of every aviation safety management system (SMS) is to:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
"Safety Policy" is a major asset for building an effective safety culture in aviation safety management systems (SMS). An aviation SMS is a complex system of interrelated components and elements, and "Safety Policy" is one of the four SMS components (or pillars). For a quick review, the four SMS components are:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) have been required by most aviation service providers since the November 2006 ICAO mandate. To add structure to SMS implementations and to educate safety professionals, ICAO provides SMS implementation guidance in the form of a Safety Management Manual (SMM), now in the fourth edition.
In the SMM, aviation SMS implementation requirements are logically grouped under four components (also known as four pillars):
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Risk management decision-making processes will dictate the success of your aviation safety management system (SMS). Period.
Every change, no matter how small, arises from a risk management decision. Decision-making processes in risk management programs are often seen as a formal, documentable process, such as those seen in U.S. military leadership training courses.
Alternatively, risk management decision-making can also be an informal, “everyday” kind of process.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Investigations are the cornerstone of quality assurance efforts in aviation safety management systems (SMS). They are an attempt to answer why and how safety events occur. Investigations also commonly occur in response to reactive and proactive risk management activities after safety issues are submitted through the SMS' safety reporting system.
Different organizations use the term investigation differently depending on the context of the investigatory activity and common risk management practices within the organization.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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