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

Best Low Cost Risk Management Tools to Use in Aviation SMS

Posted by Stu Martin on Jan 2, 2019 8:14:00 PM

What Are Risk Management Tools

Risk management tools in aviation SMS is simply a vague term that refers to resources that can help you manage risk. Often, the most beneficial resources tend to be simple, inexpensive, and helpful for both providing guidance and helping you organize your time.

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Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management, Quality-Safety Management

What Is Risk Tolerance

Posted by Stu Martin on Jan 2, 2019 4:44:00 AM

Definition of Risk Tolerance

Risk tolerance is simply how much risk you are willing to accept. High-risk tolerance is generally not a good idea because it means that you are willing to “tolerate” or “accept” a high degree of risk for performing tasks.

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance

How Safety Managers Increase Their Power in Aviation SMS

Posted by Christopher Howell on Jan 1, 2019 4:13:29 PM

Effective Use of Power in Aviation SMS

Aviation safety managers around the world are charged with implementing required aviation safety management systems (SMS). SMS implementations affect entire organizations and not simply a single department, such as:

  • Flight ops;
  • Ground ops; or
  • Maintenance.
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Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation

Aviation Safety Managers' Best Friend - Trending Charts

Posted by Stu Martin on Jan 1, 2019 6:45:00 AM

Hazards Are Dynamic

Aviation safety management systems (SMS) have the objective to:

  • proactively manage safety,
  • identify potential hazards,
  • determine risk, and
  • implement measures that mitigate the risk.

Furthermore, an aviation SMS affords operators more opportunities to identify safety issues and spot trends before they result in "The Accident."

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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

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