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

How to Review Your Aviation Safety Risk Management Procedures

Posted by Christopher Howell on Dec 30, 2018 1:19:25 AM

Why Review Safety Risk Management Procedures?

Aviation safety managers come and go. At the most volatile organizations, we see safety managers change every six months to a year.

The reasons safety managers leave their positions include:

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management

5 Useful Safety Performance Monitoring Tools in Aviation SMS

Posted by Christopher Howell on Dec 27, 2018 1:03:00 PM

What Is Safety Performance Monitoring in Aviation SMS

Safety performance monitoring in aviation SMS is the primary way you will assess your safety program. This assessment happens in two different ways:

  • Passively, such as in the case of high, system-level performance monitoring, such as trend identification; and
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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance, 2-Safety Risk Management

How to Incorporate Fatigue Risk Management Into Aviation SMS

Posted by Stu Martin on Dec 26, 2018 4:21:00 AM

What Is Fatigue Risk Management

Fatigue is one of the most important factors in overall operational safety. It’s so important that most aviation safety management systems adopt additional and specific measures to combat fatigue. Fatigue risk management includes:

  • Fatigue monitoring;
  • Fatigue controls;
  • Fatigue data gathering; and
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Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 2-Safety Risk Management

Cybersecurity in Aviation SMS

Posted by Stu Martin on Dec 25, 2018 4:45:00 AM

What Is Cybersecurity

The aviation industry relies heavily on computers for every touchpoint of aviation service, from ground to flight operations. Cybersecurity is a term that refers to the safety of such computer systems – it is also called info-security. If nefarious individuals were able to get access to some of your computer systems, they could pose a catastrophic threat to flight operations.

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Topics: 1-Safety Policy, Quality-Safety Management

Why/When Aviation Safety Managers Don't Need Operational Experience

Posted by Christopher Howell on Dec 24, 2018 6:51:00 AM

What Does Being an Aviation Safety Manager Mean?

Aviation safety managers are responsible for the development, operation, and continuous improvement of our world's aviation safety management systems (SMS). Safety managers facilitate the management of all safety-related issues according to ICAO's requirements following the four pillars:

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management

3 Things Proactive Aviation Safety Managers Never Do

Posted by Stu Martin on Dec 23, 2018 10:52:00 AM

Healthy for the Program, Healthy for the SMS Manager

Proactive aviation risk management is an organizational-wide effort towards identifying risk and mitigating hazards before an incident occurs.

For an aviation safety management system (SMS) to get to the point of proactive aviation safety, there will be considerable upfront work required.

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management

Why Should We Implement Aviation SMS?

Posted by Christopher Howell on Dec 22, 2018 10:51:00 AM

Resistance to Aviation SMS

Considerable numbers of aviation managers in the United States and a few other countries groaned when ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) mandated that most aviation service providers implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS).

Americans, by nature, are rebellious against government involvement in commercial activities.

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management

Safety Chart: Monitor Safety Concerns in Real Time in Aviation SMS

Posted by Stu Martin on Dec 21, 2018 6:05:00 AM

Why This Aviation Safety Chart Is Important

Having "real-time" safety charts saves aviation safety managers, executives, and employees a lot of work and keeps them informed of the latest hazards and risks affecting aviation-centric operations.

Having access to real-time safety charts allows management to monitor your SMS program at a glance, rather than having to navigate through your software

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Topics: Risk Management Software

What Is Modern Aviation Risk Management Cycle - With SMS Resources

Posted by Christopher Howell on Dec 20, 2018 5:08:00 PM

Aviation Risk Management Cycle

Risk management has always been the core element of effective aviation safety programs. Before the advent of formal aviation safety management systems (SMS), aviation service providers managed operational risk in their everyday activities,

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management

How to Evaluate Risk Controls and Risk to Aviation SMS Implementations

Posted by Christopher Howell on Dec 18, 2018 6:00:00 AM

Aviation SMS Implementations Have Risk!

Imagine you are the pilot recently assigned the "extra" task of being the safety manager of an existing aviation safety management system (SMS).

Or perhaps you are the safety manager who has worked hard for years and your SMS is running very smoothly. Now what?

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Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation

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