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4 Pillars | What Is Safety Risk Management

Posted by Tyler Britton on May 12, 2019 7:05:00 AM

Safety Risk Management Process

If there’s one takeaway for new professionals in aviation safety management, it’s that aviation risk management is a process. It is not a single, solid “thing.”

This process is cyclical and can be identified by several stages that form a systematic approach to safety risk management, including:

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5 Proven Benefits of a Fishbone Diagram Library in Aviation SMS

Posted by Tyler Britton on May 4, 2019 6:05:00 AM

Underlying Benefit of Fishbone Diagram in Aviation SMS

Fishbone diagram libraries provide many opportunities and benefits for aviation service providers who decide to adopt fishbone diagrams as a risk management tool in their aviation safety management systems (SMS).

The primary benefit of fishbone diagrams provide is detail.

Fishbone diagrams:

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What Is Proactive Hazard Identification and Risk Management in Aviation SMS

Posted by Christopher Howell on Apr 30, 2019 6:07:00 AM

What Is Proactive Hazard Management

I have a friend across the globe who is having trouble getting his head around proactive hazard identification and the resulting risk management processes in his aviation safety management system (SMS).

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What Is a Risk Control in Aviation SMS: Meaning, Purpose, Application

Posted by Tyler Britton on Apr 27, 2019 5:56:00 AM

What Is a Risk Control in Aviation SMS Programs

Risk controls in aviation safety management systems (SMS) are a company’s shield against danger and the best chance for aviation service providers to conduct operations successfully.

Danger can be many things in an operational environment, but generally, danger falls into one of the following categories:

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Difference Between Proactive and Mitigative Risk Controls in Aviation SMS

Posted by Tyler Britton on Apr 25, 2019 6:03:00 AM

What Is a Risk Control in Aviation SMS?

Hazard identification and risk management are two major activities of formal, aviation safety management systems (SMS). Once the hazard is identified, the safety concern is reported to management for treatment via the SMS risk management processes. SMS risk management processes evaluate:

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3 Things Preventing Effective Proactive Risk Management in Aviation SMS

Posted by Tyler Britton on Apr 19, 2019 6:09:00 AM

What Is Proactive Risk Management?

I see many misnomers about what proactive risk management is when talking in the context of an aviation safety management system (SMS).

Often one sees the proactive risk management concept clumped together with risk management in general as if they are one and the same. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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4 Major Activities of Proactive Risk Management in Aviation SMS

Posted by Tyler Britton on Apr 18, 2019 6:05:00 AM

What Are Main Activities of Proactive Risk Management?

Like aviation safety culture, proactive risk management is another part of aviation safety management systems (SMS) that a surprising number of people fail to truly understand. This creates missed opportunities and unfulfilled expectations that many aviation service providers can ill afford.

Setting the stage for proactive risk management in an aviation SMS is like painting a house. Safety teams

  1. plan and set safety goals;
  2. train employees on hazard identification;
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4 Essential Tips for Management of Change in Aviation SMS

Posted by Tyler Britton on Apr 4, 2019 6:00:00 AM

Why Change Management in Aviation SMS Is Important

Management of change in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is a complex undertaking because so often it involves performing in-depth risk analysis and risk assessments on current and hypothetical

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What, Why, and How to Use Bowtie Analysis in Aviation SMS

Posted by Tyler Britton on Apr 2, 2019 6:00:00 AM

What Is Bowtie Analysis in Aviation SMS

Bowtie analysis in aviation safety management systems (SMS) databases is a fairly new tool that is catching on with great success in aviation risk management programs. There are not many SMS databases that have the bowtie, but if you want a great risk management tool seamlessly incorporated into your hazard and risk register, then getting an SMS database with the bowtie is a great choice.

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Are Aviation SMS Implementations Different for Airports, Airlines, MROs?

Posted by Tyler Britton on Mar 31, 2019 6:00:00 AM

Airport SMS vs Airline SMS Implementations

Surprisingly, we receive questions about “airline SMS programs” and “airport SMS programs” all the time, as if they were two entirely different species of aviation SMS.

I get the feeling that the question of airport SMS vs airline SMS arises from misinterpreting what aviation safety management systems (SMS) are.

In three lines, aviation SMS implementations are:

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