SMS' Risk Management Seldom Reaches Full Potential
Risk management processes in aviation safety management systems (SMS) offer service providers structure for:
- Hazard identification;
- Hazard reporting;
- Risk quantification;
Risk management processes in aviation safety management systems (SMS) offer service providers structure for:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
When you perform internal aviation SMS audits, it’s essential you include the auditing of previously managed issues.
Why should you audit previously managed issues?
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
The systems, procedures, and regulations of aviation service providers are as multifaceted as just about any industry in the world. We can imagine it as a house of cards, where all of the various elements lean on each other to form what we know as the aviation industry.
The aviation industry has matured significantly in the past one hundred years since the first scheduled airline flight in 1914. Change is inevitable.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety reports from aviation service providers' employees are important resources for the detection and prevention of potential safety hazards. One of the biggest challenges for aviation safety managers is to obtain safety reports from employees.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) are supported by the safety policy which is endorsed by the organization's accountable executive. The safety policy communicates management's commitment to the SMS while also affording employees protection from self-reporting errors or mistakes.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Aviation safety managers are tasked with managing all aspects of fully implemented aviation safety management systems (SMS). Naturally, most laypersons imagine safety managers reacting to accidents, incidents, and irregularities (issues or events) as their primary job function.
It is also probable that most managers outside the safety department
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
In aviation safety management, responsibility, confidentiality, and privacy are the triad that affects how you handle reported safety information. Whether your organization is large or small, your leadership team needs to discuss these factors and decide how to handle them.
Your organization may decide that it doesn’t need to pay particular attention to this triad,
Aviation safety is the foundation of an industry where precision is critical, and the consequences of errors can be catastrophic.
Millions of passengers board flights daily, placing their trust in the systems and professionals ensuring their safety. To meet this responsibility, aviation safety software has become an indispensable tool, transforming how safety is managed worldwide.
These platforms enable proactive hazard identification,
Topics: Risk Management Software
Another aviation safety audit for your safety management system (SMS)...
The safety auditors are coming with established guidelines from:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation service providers should be aware of what level of risk is and isn’t acceptable. In other words, when you perform a risk assessment on a safety concern, what amount of risk requires mitigating actions, and what amount of risk requires no actions? What amount of risk is acceptable.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
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