Safety managers face difficult challenges when complying with the ICAO aviation safety management systems (SMS) requirements. Most airlines and airports around the world understand that they have to implement these SMS requirements.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Historically, aviation safety management strategies relied predominantly upon reactive risk management principles. For example, a critical part would break or an accident occurred, and managers would then attempt to determine the root cause and fix the issue.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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.
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:
Fatigue is one of the most important factors in overall operational safety. It’s so important that most aviation safety management systems adopt additional and specific measures to combat fatigue. Fatigue risk management includes:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation safety managers are responsible for the development, operation, and continuous improvement of our world's aviation safety management systems (SMS). Safety managers facilitate the management of all safety-related issues according to ICAO's requirements following the four pillars:
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Proactive aviation risk management is an organizational-wide effort towards identifying risk and mitigating hazards before an incident occurs.
For an aviation safety management system (SMS) to get to the point of proactive aviation safety, there will be considerable upfront work required.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
Considerable numbers of aviation managers in the United States and a few other countries groaned when ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) mandated that most aviation service providers implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS).
Americans, by nature, are rebellious against government involvement in commercial activities.
Topics: 2-Safety Risk Management
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