Through the course of daily work in an aviation safety management system, you will discover safety issues – this is called “discovery.” When you make discoveries, such as through hazard reporting or SMS audits, you need to formally process them through your SMS Safety Assurance Process.
Knowing your aviation safety management system (SMS) is much like going on an extended backpacking trip.
To be safe, you need to be aware of:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Dedicated, hard-working safety managers drive the setup of airline and airports' aviation safety management systems (SMS).
These safety managers are often left to decipher ambiguous requirements that are open to multiple interpretations. This comes into play, especially when upper management wants to "pencil-whip" an aviation SMS and merely check the boxes.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 1-Safety Policy, 2-Safety Risk Management
Airport SMS programs and Airline SMS programs need to use a formal process for ranking various risks. Risk assessments satisfy this need and, based on your Acceptable Level of Safety policy, allow you to know which actions to take next on the issue you are assessing.
The risk assessment process in aviation SMS starts with discovery, which usually happens via:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Incentive (or lack of) will make or break an aviation safety management system (SMS).
Without fail, aviation SMS that perform at a proactive risk management level have specific incentives that fit the needs of the organization.
Immature programs struggle to cultivate incentives for several reasons,
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Predictive risk management is one of the primary goals of an aviation safety management system (SMS). Predictive risk management allows operators to identify safety issues and spot trends before they result in a
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation safety managers are among the best people I've ever worked with. What does this tell you? Maybe my exposure is severely limited?
During my life, I've worked a lot with:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Hazard identification training and safety reporting can be seen as the beginning of the aviation risk management cycle in aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Is this the first step in the aviation risk management life-cycle? We shouldn't say this because employees and stakeholders reporting safety issues must be trained on what type of safety reports management wishes to process.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Risk management processes in aviation safety management systems (SMS) offer service providers structure for:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
The systems, procedures, and regulations of aviation service providers are as multifaceted as just about any industry in the world. We can imagine it as a house of cards, where all of the various elements lean on each other to form what we know as the aviation industry.
The aviation industry has matured significantly in the past one hundred years since the first scheduled airline flight in 1914. Change is inevitable.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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