Confidentiality in aviation SMS is how much personal information is included in available safety reports and concerns. When safety issues are reported, employees may or may not have access to details about the reported issue. When employees do have access, or when you release information about a reported issue, you will need to decide if employees can see information like:
Topics: Safety Culture
Have you been tasked to implement your aviation safety management program (SMS) at your company?
Or perhaps you have inherited a "paper SMS" or one that is dysfunctional?
One of the most common challenges safety managers face is to secure buy-in from all employees to support the SMS both during
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Fact: In most countries, aviation service providers must implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Fact: Most aviation safety managers tasked to implement SMS programs have primary duties outside the safety program. Their day jobs may be as pilots, airfield maintenance engineers, etc.
Fact: Most safety managers are lower in the organizational chart than department heads accustomed to doing business "the way we've always done it."
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Safety managers face difficult challenges when complying with the ICAO aviation safety management systems (SMS) requirements. Most airlines and airports around the world understand that they have to implement these SMS requirements.
In many parts of the world, aviation safety managers commonly lack:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety managers are commonly the invisible authors to many safety policies showcased at aviation service providers worldwide. After all, safety managers are the "supposed" subject-matter experts and the accountable executive is busy doing "accountable executive stuff."
When you are assigned to manage an aviation safety management system (SMS), one of the first tasks is to either create or review the aviation safety policy.
Where do you begin?
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Timely reporting of hazards, incidents, or accidents is seen as an essential activity of aviation safety and risk management. I can safely say that without reported hazards or safety issues, there will be:
Topics: Risk Management Software
Let’s be real – documentation is really just a fancy word for paperwork (digital or hard copy). It can be extremely tedious.
I’ve never met anyone who looks forward to the documentation required in an aviation safety management system (SMS). That doesn’t change the fact that at every activity of an aviation SMS –
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Risk analysis is an activity that safety managers will perform on a regular basis for discovered (or potential) issues. You might identify these issues because of a hazard report or during an audit. Regardless of how you identify an issue, you will need to analyze it to understand:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
A mature, effective aviation safety management system (SMS) will always incorporate imaginative ways to stimulate teamwork and good communication between employees.
It’s a tricky area though because teamwork and communication are beset by:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion, Safety Culture
When I was in school, both high school and college, English composition professors would frequently remark on my ability to use very few words to say a lot.
I always took this to be a compliment, but there is a severe limitation to my writing style. From my point of view, why use ten words when one will suffice?
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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