Incredible challenges assail aviation safety managers at smaller operations who are implementing aviation safety management systems (SMS). In short, their organizational size and make-up present a very real hazard that must be recognized and mitigated.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
While the safety benefits are often stressed far more than the financial benefits of aviation safety management systems (SMS), this is a mistake.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Audits can be extremely stressful. Especially if things haven't been going well in your aviation safety management system (SMS) in terms of performance or implementation progress.
At this point, there's only one thing that you need to do before anything else:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Last year we released a Hazard and Risk Competency Quiz, which deals a lot with the concept of Risk Events. Overall the assessment – which was purposefully very difficult – was very successful.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation is inherently risky, but effective risk management within a Safety Management System (SMS) transforms those risks into opportunities for safety and compliance.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
If there’s one takeaway for new professionals in aviation safety management, it’s that aviation risk management is a process. It is not a single, solid “thing.”
This process is cyclical and can be identified by several stages that form a systematic approach to safety risk management, including:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
By definition, aviation safety culture is an organization’s commitment to safety. I tend to find this definition limiting.
Perhaps a better way to understand safety culture is the means of realizing safety success, in which commitment is just one part.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
In November 2006, the International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) mandated that all member states implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Safety managers are fresh, fully motivated when starting their aviation SMS implementations.
SMS Implementations are marathons, not sprints. Initially, you will be able to have many short bursts to get you out of the starting gate.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
A common misperception in the aviation industry regarding safety management is that it is primarily a responsibility of the safety manager to work on all safety related matters.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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