For every aviation safety management system (SMS), the accountable executive must ensure the SMS is properly implemented and performing in all areas of the organization. To achieve this end, safety management teams work to ensure that all personnel participate in the aviation SMS.
Wishes and reality are two different ideas. The reality is that most employees care about the SMS as much as the company's traditional safety program.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Change is an inevitable and constant reality in the aviation industry. A lack of change is tantamount to a lack of growth in an economy.
Likewise, if your aviation safety management system (SMS) is not changing, it’s not improving. "Continuous improvement of the SMS" is the third element of the "Safety Assurance" pillar of ICAO-compliant SMS.
How do you monitor environmental change in your company?
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
A risk control process for an aviation safety management system (SMS) entails a series of risk management tasks that are executed whenever:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Every aviation operation endures varying levels of risk, depending on ever-changing environmental conditions.
The operating environment never remains constant.
No two operations are identical.
Certain factors will always interject uncertainty and risk into the operation, including:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety managers are busy people. After all, they are constantly ensuring SMS documentation requirements are appropriately managed for all four pillars of the aviation safety management system (SMS).
It's easy to let something slip by if there are no mechanisms in place for quality assurance for your aviation SMS.
What does it mean to review the aviation SMS' safety policy?
How is this done?
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
A risk assessment is a method you use to rank the risk of safety issues. You will commonly perform risk assessments on reported safety issues and other identified hazards. Assessments are integral to helping you establish whether or not a given issue is within an Acceptable Level of Safety.
Risk assessments use a risk matrix to create composite number/letter grades based on:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation safety managers are faced with particular challenges stemming from:
The problem stems from safety managers not speaking the same language as upper-level executives. Imagine dogs trying to communicate with cats.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Without fail, every aviation safety manager I have met has the following attributes:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Most aviation companies are profit-driven. Aviation service providers attempt to provide safe services while providing a return on investment.
Many upper-level managers at smaller companies believe that safety managers don't need modern aviation safety management databases to manage aviation safety management systems (SMS) documentation requirements.
They may be right. Not every company should buy these SMS tools.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Aviation SMS roles are used to organize different responsibilities in your aviation safety program. Each role in your SMS will have separate responsibilities. SMS roles are assigned to each of your employees.
You should develop roles at the very beginning of starting an SMS. Roles provide significant benefits by helping you:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
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