An Aviation Safety Policy is a document in safety management systems that outlines the core, important safety information that underlies your SMS.
It is the canon for your SMS.
This document should define your organization’s;
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Some of you are well acquainted with the ins and outs of aviation safety management systems and SMS software.
If you are in the other group, like me, and are only barely acquainted with what aviation SMS is and who uses it, then this article is for you.
Before we jump in, let’s set some groundwork for what SMS is.
A safety management system is exactly what it sounds like:
Curiosity and upper management may frequently demand that safety managers create reports from safety data that compare their operations with their competitors or with a national, regional, or global "average."
Displaying hazard reporting data over time increases management's understanding of the real performance of airline and airports' safety processes.
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
Airports and airlines are busy places. Many inexperienced and experienced pilots and other personnel can be found hurrying about completing their tasks and missions. In such conditions, as in all aviation settings, a good safety culture is essential.
Airports exemplify many important SMS training values that help to keep pilots safe. These include:
Topics: Risk Management Training
In the old days of national airline carriers the crews almost invariably shared the same nationality. Indeed, a common national identity of the workforce was a trademark of these carriers.
Now, with the liberalization of air transport occurring in many parts of the world, workforces have become increasingly multicultural. Examples of this trend can be seen around the world.
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Safety communication in aviation SMS is simply another way of sharing data.
Safety communication IS data sharing. This data sharing happens in several ways:
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Many of the words and phrases used in aviation SMS have very specific meanings beyond those found in the dictionary. Hazard and risk, for example, have definitions that go beyond Merriam-Webster’s definition.
Safety policy is not one of those phrases. In fact, safety policy can refer to two distinctly different aspects of your SMS, which can be highly confusing when you jump in with both feet like I did.
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In SMS, it’s extremely useful to organize reported issues by classifying them with classifications.
A classification is simply a unit of organization. By “unit of organization,” we are talking about a short phrase that describes the safety issue in one way. This issue can be described in terms of:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Organization’s with successful aviation safety management systems (SMS) training strategies universally have very well performing aviation SMS. End of story.
Training can make or break a company.
And let’s be honest, 99% of all training courses you or I have ever attended were dreadfully boring, uninspiring, and (worst of all) forgettable.
There are really only two main goals for training to change. The first goal of aviation SMS training is preparing individuals for how to act safely in all situations, be it
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Most aviation safety managers never went to business school. Otherwise, there would be fewer problems and mistakes relating to key performance indicators (KPI) management.
After spending over a dozen years providing SMS implementation support to aviation service providers around the world, we have repeatedly seen similar mistakes that could be prevented had the safety managers had more training or information revolving around aviation key performance indicators.
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
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