Management of change in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is essential for managing operational or organizational change. Safety teams are typically involved in the management of change (MOC) exercises.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Most aviation safety professionals today are managing their aviation safety management systems (SMS) using automated tools. These full-featured SMS database tools allow safety managers to easily classify issues according to many criteria.
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
“Safety culture” is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in aviation safety management systems (SMS) as a vague reference to different aspects of safety.
Understanding the meaning of aviation safety culture is less practiced in philosophy as it is recognition of what it looks like in actual practice for:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Aviation SMS audits are necessary to ensure aviation service providers comply with established guidelines. These established guidelines may come from:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
The line between reactive and proactive safety workplaces is unfortunately not as concrete as anyone would like. If it were so obvious, many organizations would be far less reactive. The fact is that most cultures are less proactive than they would like to be.
Granted, there are some obvious indicators that an organization is only responding to accidents rather than actively trying to prevent them.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Most safety managers consider aligning their operation's key performance indicators with organizational objectives, such as
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
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:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
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).
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
The objective of aviation safety management systems (SMS) is to
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
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