Aviation is one of the safest modes of transportation, thanks to rigorous safety protocols and continuous learning from incidents. For aviation safety managers, incident investigations are a cornerstone of maintaining and enhancing safety. These investigations aim to uncover the root causes of incidents to prevent future occurrences, not to assign blame.
As outlined in ICAO Annex 13, the sole objective is prevention, ensuring lessons learned contribute to safer skies.
The first and foremost goal of an aviation safety newsletter is safety promotion for an organization's aviation safety management system (SMS). Which, put more simply, means creating an interest and awareness in anything safety.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Aviation safety managers are among the best people I've ever worked with. What does this tell you? Maybe my exposure is severely limited?
During my life, I've worked a lot with:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
The objective of an aviation quality management system (QMS) is to continually improve the level of customer satisfaction by meeting their needs.
The objective of a safety management system (SMS) is to also continually improve, but instead of focusing on customer satisfaction, an SMS program focuses on stakeholders' safety, both real and perceived.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Hazard identification training and safety reporting can be seen as the beginning of the aviation risk management cycle in aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Roles in aviation SMS software are different categories of permissions and access assigned to users accessing your SMS database. Each role will have different responsibilities and authority.
Roles allow you to organize the human elements in your safety management system. This helps you:
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
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