Airports and airlines are busy places. Many inexperienced and experienced pilots and other personnel can be found hurrying about completing their tasks and missions. In such conditions, as in all aviation settings, a good safety culture is essential.
Airports exemplify many important SMS training values that help to keep pilots safe. These include:
Topics: Risk Management Training
In the old days of national airline carriers the crews almost invariably shared the same nationality. Indeed, a common national identity of the workforce was a trademark of these carriers.
Now, with the liberalization of air transport occurring in many parts of the world, workforces have become increasingly multicultural.
Topics: Safety Culture
Safety communication in aviation SMS is simply another way of sharing data.
Safety communication IS data sharing. This data sharing happens in several ways:
Topics: Safety Culture
Many of the words and phrases used in aviation SMS have very specific meanings beyond those found in the dictionary. Hazard and risk, for example, have definitions that go beyond Merriam-Webster’s definition.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
In SMS, it’s extremely useful to organize reported issues by classifying them with classifications.
A classification is simply a unit of organization. By “unit of organization,” we are talking about a short phrase that describes the safety issue in one way.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Organization’s with successful aviation safety management systems (SMS) training strategies universally have very well performing aviation SMS. End of story.
Training can make or break a company.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Most aviation safety managers never went to business school. Otherwise, there would be fewer problems and mistakes relating to key performance indicators (KPI) management.
Topics: Key Performance Indicators
In aviation maintenance, as in all other aspects of the aviation sector, safety is paramount. 4 safety management practices that can be applied to make any maintenance operation safer are:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Aviation companies of all shapes and sizes can benefit from a safety management system or SMS, but when faced with implementing one, small organizations can easily find themselves overwhelmed by the requirements.
Topics: 1-Safety Policy
Your Safety Risk Management process is how you design your SMS.
First you design and document your SMS, and then update it as your SMS and/or environment changes.
Developing your SRM process, and in turn, designing your SMS happens largely in Phase 3 of aviation SMS Implementation.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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