Hazard identification and subsequent hazard mitigation strategies are critical for successful, continued operations. Monitoring which groups of employees are reporting safety issues in your aviation safety management system (SMS) allows management to stay abreast of who is involved in the SMS.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
There are several times each year when managers are interested in trending charts coming from their aviation safety management systems (SMS). These times include during:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Participants of healthy aviation safety management systems (SMS) enjoy trusting relationships between management and staff. The goal for organizational success without
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
The term risk mitigation, broadly speaking, means to try and prevent danger. You might think of it as “reducing exposure.” In general, there are four best practices employed in aviation SMS to mitigate risk, and they include:
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.
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.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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,
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) have the objective to:
Furthermore, an aviation SMS affords operators more opportunities to identify safety issues and spot trends before they result in "The Accident."
Aviation safety managers come and go. At the most volatile organizations, we see safety managers change every six months to a year.
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:
These two on-demand videos offer:
