ICAO requires an SMS manual for many aviation organizations required to abide by their SMS mandate. It is very tempting to gloss over your manual... to get it out of the way and never look at it again.
Manuals aren't sexy, and most of the time, they're boring at best. I've read a lot of manuals that were downright painful.
A Key Performance Indicator (KPI) measures how effectively aviation service providers are achieving key business or safety objectives. Civil aviation authorities also use KPIs to evaluate their success at reaching safety targets.
When focusing on safety, there is a tendency of some safety professionals to use the term "safety performance indicator" (SPI) to differentiate pure business metrics from safety metrics.
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
Aviation risk management is a vital part of being a well-rounded pilot. The safety mindset works best every time flying.
Although all components are important, perhaps the most vital of them all is understanding the importance of "aviation risk management."
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Being honest about mistakes is hard.
It’s even harder to try and seek out mistakes you are making that you do not know you are making.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Every aviation safety management system (SMS) contains a subsystem to manage risk associated with reported safety issues and audit findings. This subsystem can be called the SMS' risk management system as this system provides the logical workflow necessary to efficiently:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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
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