Managing safety issues in aviation SMS is largely about performing various investigatory activities to make good safety decisions. Investigatory activities are usually conducted by:
The first and foremost goal of an aviation safety newsletter is safety promotion for an organization's aviation safety management system (SMS). Which, put more simply, means creating an interest and awareness in anything safety.
More broadly, safety promotion is a method of shifting focus towards aviation safety to encourage and train employees to identify hazards and report safety issues.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Aviation safety managers are among the best people I've ever worked with. What does this tell you? Maybe my exposure is severely limited?
During my life, I've worked a lot with:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
The objective of an aviation quality management system (QMS) is to continually improve the level of customer satisfaction by meeting their needs.
The objective of a safety management system (SMS) is to also continually improve, but instead of focusing on customer satisfaction, an SMS program focuses on stakeholders' safety, both real and perceived.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Hazard identification training and safety reporting can be seen as the beginning of the aviation risk management cycle in aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Is this the first step in the aviation risk management life-cycle? We shouldn't say this because employees and stakeholders reporting safety issues must be trained on what type of safety reports management wishes to process.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Roles in aviation SMS software are different categories of permissions and access assigned to users accessing your SMS database. Each role will have different responsibilities and authority.
Roles allow you to organize the human elements in your safety management system. This helps you:
Risk management processes in aviation safety management systems (SMS) offer service providers structure for:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
When you perform internal aviation SMS audits, it’s essential you include the auditing of previously managed issues.
Why should you audit previously managed issues? Because external auditors will randomly sample your managed issues and look very closely at the decisions you made and why you made them. If you don’t randomly sample and audit your issues, you can probably expect an audit finding on your next external audit.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
The systems, procedures, and regulations of aviation service providers are as multifaceted as just about any industry in the world. We can imagine it as a house of cards, where all of the various elements lean on each other to form what we know as the aviation industry.
The aviation industry has matured significantly in the past one hundred years since the first scheduled airline flight in 1914. Change is inevitable.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety reports from aviation service providers' employees are important resources for the detection and prevention of potential safety hazards. One of the biggest challenges for aviation safety managers is to obtain safety reports from employees.
Obstacles that contribute to this challenge are common:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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