Proving to stakeholders that your aviation safety management system is working is simply a matter of showing that the primary goal of SMS is being achieved - namely, that:
There are several prerequisites for being able to show that safety is being improved as a result of SMS and employee involvement:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
In every aviation safety management system (SMS), the accountable executive is responsible for ensuring the SMS is properly implemented and working across the entire organization. In order to fulfill this responsibility, accountable executives and their safety teams need tools to identify and address substandard safety performance.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation safety managers become apprehensive at certain points in their careers. We see this frequently when:
Topics: Aviation SMS Database
Recently, there has been a significant rise in the interest in reducing data management complexity and increasing synergies by integrating quality management systems (QMS) and safety management systems (SMS) in the aviation industry. This is probably because many aviation service providers have already begun or have well-developed SMS implementations.
Alternatively, the interest may result from the overwhelming number of data management systems that modern aviation service providers use to manage operations.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Since November 2006, most commercial aviation service providers have been required to implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS) to comply with the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) mandate.
These operators must develop and maintain a formal risk management process for identifying hazards and implementing needed changes in their operational environments to help reduce risk to acceptable levels.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
You depend on your safety manager to monitor and improve safety in your area of operations, regardless of whether you are an:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Selecting key performance indicators (KPIs) in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is neither simple nor always intuitive. In addition to being time-consuming and costly, selecting and monitoring KPIs can also be a stressful experience.
Lives depend on choosing good KPIs. Your job may depend on selecting good KPIs.
Fortunately, selecting KPIs is helped by the fact that:
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
Incredible challenges assail aviation safety managers at smaller operations who are implementing aviation safety management systems (SMS). In short, their organizational size and make-up present a very real hazard that must be recognized and mitigated.
Recognizing the hazard, as well as awareness of possible remedies will be a first step toward overcoming these SMS implementation challenges.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
While the safety benefits are often stressed far more than the financial benefits of aviation safety management systems (SMS), this is a mistake. When companies benefit financially from a safety initiative, what this means is that they benefit financially because the safety initiative is actually improving safety.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Audits can be extremely stressful. Especially if things haven't been going well in your aviation safety management system (SMS) in terms of performance or implementation progress.
At this point, there's only one thing that you need to do before anything else:
No audit is going to be perfect. There are going to be findings. Obviously, the fewer, the better.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
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