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
Roles in aviation SMS are used to categorize different responsibilities of employees in your safety program. Each role in your SMS will be responsible for different areas of your SMS, including different duties to fulfill those responsibilities. SMS roles are assigned to each of your employees.
Safety Assurance in aviation SMS is a process that helps you ensure that your SMS is functioning as designed. Safety Assurance is most closely associated with Phase 4 of SMS implementation. Implementing Phase 4 largely involves implementing to:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Over a dozen years have passed since the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) required aviation safety management system (SMS) implementation by the following aviation service providers:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Aviation service providers are in business to provide a service. While some providers are government-funded, most offer their services to achieve common strategic business objectives, namely:
Every aviation service provider works with finite resources to deliver their services to align with their business objectives.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Safety managers are resourceful professionals. Their respective companies demand that they provide results on extremely limited budgets. Many times safety managers are appointed without adequate training. In these cases, safety managers are kicked into the deep end of the swimming pool.
Sink or swim, safety manager.
Most often, the accountable executive doesn't understand all the documentation requirements in an aviation safety management system (SMS).
Topics: Risk Management Software
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) needs input from three levels of your organization to be successful. Without the total involvement of your company, hazard reporting will fail.
The three levels of your company and their corresponding responsibility for setting up a successful hazard reporting program are:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion, Safety Culture
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) revolve around the four ICAO pillars:
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
The idea of a safety management system (SMS) is something those of us in the aviation risk management industry use as if an SMS were one solid “thing.” But a safety management system is actually made up of multiple ideas, packaged into a single, functioning effort for better aviation safety.
These different ideas are found in its name:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy, Quality-Safety Management
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