Safety accountabilities in aviation safety management systems (SMS) implementations outline the bureaucratic structure of organizational safety expectations. Defining accountabilities has the ultimate goal of clearly communicating:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Management’s commitment to aviation safety management systems (SMS) is an extremely important part of the Four Pillar’s Safety Policy component.
Without a doubt, your SMS will fail without support from senior management.
Successful aviation SMS have exceptional safety cultures that rely significantly upon strong management commitment.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
I see many misnomers about what proactive risk management is when talking in the context of an aviation safety management system (SMS).
Often one sees the proactive risk management concept clumped together with risk management in general as if they are one and the same. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Like aviation safety culture, proactive risk management is another part of aviation safety management systems (SMS) that a surprising number of people fail to truly understand. This creates missed opportunities and unfulfilled expectations that many aviation service providers can ill afford.
Setting the stage for proactive risk management in an aviation SMS is like painting a house. Safety teams
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
A hazard in aviation risk management is a condition that poses danger to your organization and can lead to safety incidents if not mitigated. Hazards are central to the entire risk management process. Often, hazards are either confused with risks (i.e., accidents) or hazardous sources. In this article, we will explore what hazardous sources are and how they differ from hazards.
First, let’s distinguish what a hazard is. A hazard is a term that satisfies ALL the following real-life conditions:
Topics: Risk Management Training
Our global economy relies heavily on aviation SMS safety assurance activities to be carried out dutifully by aviation service providers.
The aviation industry is responsible for safely transporting goods and people all over the world.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Operational #policies and procedures are the bureaucratic backbones to the success of every organization. The policies and procedures are the recipes or secret sauce that your company uses to deliver its product or service.
The purpose of every aviation safety management system (SMS), besides obviously improving levels of system safety, is to improve operational processes to a point where risk is mitigated as low as reasonably practical (ALARP).
Topics: Risk Management Software
Over a dozen years (Nov 2006) have passed since ICAO issued its first mandate requiring member states to implement formal, structured aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
In aviation SMS, you analyze risk in order to identify how a particular issue affects safety. Based on your analysis, you can assess the safety issue, thereby ranking the level of risk and understanding what, if any, actions you need to take on the issue.
When you analyze the risk of an issue, you should be looking out for specific parts of the issue, such as:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
I have written before that one of the biggest problems with safety culture in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is the way most of us understand what safety culture is. The problem confounds itself when one considers the other related organizational performance topics, such as:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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