Somewhat surprisingly, in aviation safety management systems (SMS), safety objectives are often quite misunderstood. Experienced safety management may have a slightly misguided understanding of safety objectives.
New safety management will simply ask, what are safety objectives?
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Aviation management personnel and employees who truly understand the differences between hazards, risks, and different types of controls are more effective at preventing accidents and reducing costs related to preventable accidents and incidents.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
During the issue management life-cycle, safety managers commonly conduct initial and residual risk assessments on reported issues. In most cases, the risk is a combination of both:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Before making risk assessments, there are several important questions to ask about the issue in question. These questions are extremely significant, as they affect how you will rank the issue and how you will respond to it.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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
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,
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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