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:
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:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Safety performance monitoring in aviation SMS is the primary way you will assess your safety program. This assessment happens in two different ways:
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:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 2-Safety Risk Management
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.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy, Quality-Safety Management
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:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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
Topics: Risk Management Software
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,
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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?
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
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