Aviation SMS Structure Is the Backbone of a Safety Program
The management of aviation safety is a shared responsibility among all levels (i.e., stakeholders) of an organization.
Top management has to set the basis for establishing
The management of aviation safety is a shared responsibility among all levels (i.e., stakeholders) of an organization.
Top management has to set the basis for establishing
Topics: Risk Management Software
Safety performance in aviation safety management systems (SMS) can be difficult to fully comprehend because it involves so many moving parts. In general, we understand safety performance as involving the:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation safety managers need to give feedback – both praise and criticism – to employees and management regularly. It’s an essential part of their role as a leader in driving the performance of their aviation safety management system (SMS).
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
The Dirty Dozen Human Factors in aviation safety management systems (SMS) are not isolated factors.
They are an interwoven set of human actions that influence each other. And they are not all created equal.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Awareness is a great weapon for overcoming problems in aviation safety management systems (SMS). When aviation safety managers try to implement an aviation SMS while at the same time clinging to myths:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
How did it all begin? Today, I want to discuss with you just how Human Factors training and the Dirty Dozen posters came to be.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
What is complacency? - It’s the self-satisfaction accompanied by a loss of awareness of the dangers.
Two very experienced AMTs (one with 22 years and the other with 33 years of experience) missed 140 cracks during a 100-hourly inspection.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Performance vs prescriptive based approaches to aviation safety management systems (SMS) is and will increasingly be a hot topic in the aviation industry for years to come.
As it should be.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Transparency boils down to a very simple issue: information.
Specifically, control over and access to information. As I have said before, it’s a hot topic these days.
WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, Sony, the food industry – all are examples of major front-page scandals about access to information.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
It’s easy to forget just how young aviation safety management systems (SMS) are as their own defined entity. Aviation SMS has truly changed the aviation landscape, but there will certainly be more change as organizations reduce resistance to the change and continue to internalize and practice the mandated SMS regulations.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
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