Enhancing Aviation Safety: Expert Insights, Tips, and Updates from SMS-Pro

How to Show Employees That Your Aviation SMS Is Effective

Posted by Stu Martin on Mar 11, 2019 5:09:00 AM

Benefits of Showing Employees That Your SMS Is Effective

Showing employees that your SMS is effective is simply building your case for the SMS. That being said, there are several prerequisites for being able to show employees that your SMS is effective:

  • Your SMS has actually demonstrated safety improvement;
  • Employees are actually reporting issues;
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Topics: 4-Safety Promotion

Safety Chart: How Effective Is Hazard Identification Training in Aviation SMS?

Posted by Stu Martin on Mar 10, 2019 7:00:00 AM

Aviation SMS New Employee Integration Time

The oil industry, which in terms of safety standards is rather similar to the aviation industry, provides a great example with its statistic that over 50% of all accidents are caused by employees with less than 1 year of experience in their current work environment.

When airlines, airports, and other aviation service providers hire new employees, those employees pose a significant risk so long as they are unfamiliar with their new:

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Topics: Risk Management Software

What Good Aviation Safety Leadership Looks Like

Posted by Stu Martin on Mar 9, 2019 6:00:00 AM

Aviation Safety Leadership Is NOT Safety Management

Effective leadership is crucial in aviation safety, with key figures such as

  • Accountable Executives,
  • Department Heads,
  • Safety Champions, and
  • Safety Managers

These leaders each play an important role contributing to a safety culture where safety cannot be ignored.

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Topics: 4-Safety Promotion, 1-Safety Policy

Safety Chart: How to Monitor Aviation Risk Management Priorities Using Heat Maps

Posted by Stu Martin on Mar 8, 2019 6:00:00 AM

Monitor SMS Performance in Real Time

Safety teams and the accountable executive are expected to regularly review the performance of their implemented aviation safety management system (SMS). A regular review of the SMS is important to ensure that any substandard safety performance is addressed in a timely fashion.

Most aviation service providers are storing their SMS data in SMS databases. An SMS database provides the accountable executive with an efficient way to monitor SMS performance in real time.

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Topics: Risk Management Software

How to Monitor Aviation SMS Responsiveness Using Safety Charts

Posted by Christopher Howell on Mar 5, 2019 6:00:00 AM

Importance of SMS Performance Monitoring Charts

Aviation safety charts gather and present aviation safety management system (SMS) information to stakeholders, who can then use this information to make informed, fact-based decisions. Well-designed safety charts can take a complex idea and make it easily understandable with a simple picture, table, chart, or graph.

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Topics: Risk Management Software

What Types of Risk Assessments You Should Perform in Aviation Safety

Posted by Stu Martin on Mar 4, 2019 5:17:00 AM

What Is a Risk Assessment

Airport SMS programs and Airline SMS programs need to use a formal process for ranking various risks. Risk assessments satisfy this need and, based on your Acceptable Level of Safety policy, allow you to know which actions to take next on the issue you are assessing.

The risk assessment process in aviation SMS starts with discovery, which usually happens via:

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management

How to Monitor Aviation Safety Reporting Culture Using Safety Charts

Posted by Stu Martin on Mar 3, 2019 6:00:00 AM

Aviation Safety Chart Monitors Safety Goals and Objectives

Safety reporting metrics are among the best indicators to judge the performance of any aviation safety management system (SMS). This is such a very powerfully poignant statement. Let that sink in:

"Safety reporting metrics are among the best indicators to judge the performance of any aviation safety management system (SMS)."

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Topics: Risk Management Software

7 Great Incentives for Proactive Risk Management in Aviation SMS

Posted by Stu Martin on Mar 2, 2019 6:00:00 AM

Incentives Are the Key to Proactive Risk Management

Incentive (or lack of) will make or break an aviation safety management system (SMS).

Without fail, aviation SMS that perform at a proactive risk management level have specific incentives that fit the needs of the organization.

Immature programs struggle to cultivate incentives for several reasons,

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management

What Is an Aviation Risk Management System?

Posted by Christopher Howell on Mar 1, 2019 6:00:00 AM

Hazard Reporting Is Only the Beginning of Risk Management

Reporting hazards, incidents or accidents grabs considerable attention in every aviation safety and risk management system. Without reported data, safety managers would be unable to continuously improve systems' processes, which is a requirement in modern aviation safety management systems (SMS).

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Topics: Risk Management Software

How to Prepare for Operational Safety Assurance in Aviation SMS?

Posted by Christopher Howell on Feb 28, 2019 6:00:00 AM

Audit-Worthy Aviation SMS Implementations Take Considerable Time

Aviation service providers never implement their required aviation safety management system (SMS) quickly. In most cases, it will take three to five years for a medium to a large aviation service provider to completely implement their SMS.

You may scrape by in the early stages by pencil-whipping SMS requirements into shape, but an SMS is more than policies and pretty, well-formatted aviation SMS manuals.

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance

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