Aviation service providers are well aware of the importance of tracking pilots’ records and documents.
At any given time, an aviation service provider may have dozens of records that require action. Especially when these records are being documented in something like an Excel spreadsheet.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
SMS design is the foundation of your safety program. It is the Safety Risk Management pillar portion of the 4 Pillars of SMS.
When building your safety program, establishing a thorough, encompassing design will be the first major milestone of your SMS.
Social psychology plays a tremendously important role in safe operations. In fact, it may play the most important role in safety outcomes. Safety performance in your aviation safety program will hinge on your ability to create a climate of positive social psychology through:
Topics: Safety Culture
The 4 I’s of Issue Management are a useful, high-level way of looking at the process and steps for managing hazard reports.
In terms of how to manage hazard reports, these 4 basic steps in the process are:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Key performance indicators in aviation SMS measure the core safety concerns of your organization. They help you evaluate your success at reaching important safety targets.
KPIs are NOT used to evaluate:
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
Fatigue is the sixth of the Dirty Dozen Human Factors.
Fatigue has traditionally received a lot of attention from flight crew due to the dramatic effects of the different types of fatigue on pilot and cabin crew performance.
One of the primary challenges associated with fatigue in the workplace is that the symptoms of fatigue are other Human Factors.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
“Hazard reporting” is a bit of a misnomer because employees report much more than hazards. Hazards are simply one type of thing that people report. Perhaps a more accurate expression for hazard reporting would be “issue reporting.”
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
One of the biggest problems in aviation risk management is the misuse or misunderstanding of aviation risk management definitions and concepts. The most common mistakes happen when it comes to the idea of a hazard vs risk.
Often, these two items are either:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Hazards are central to the entire process of developing safe operational environments.
A hazard fulfills the following:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Knowing what issues employees should be reporting in your SMS requires you always keep the primary goals of hazard reporting in mind:
First, you need to gather data. You use data to:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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