Proving the effectiveness of your aviation safety management system comes in several flavors. Who are you proving the effectiveness to? You might be showing your SMS effectiveness at managing safety to:
ICAO’s hazard identification compliance requirements are twofold:
Being compliant with these requirements involves, like anything else in SMS, doing and documenting.
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Vendors and contractors play a large role in today's aviation industry. It is common for aviation service providers to employ the services of a dozen or more vendors to help the operator fulfill their mission. There are some companies with literally hundreds of suppliers.
These vendors or suppliers may include:
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If there is one thing all aviation compliance authority guidelines (including ICAO) agree upon, it’s that your aviation safety mitigation controls need to be thoroughly analyzed BEFORE you implement them.
Safety mitigation controls are the bedrock of your risk mitigation strategy.
Safety mitigation controls are also commonly called:
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Safety performance monitoring and measurement is an extremely important part of Safety Assurance. It’s how you verify the safety performance of your organization.
By safety performance, we are talking about:
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Organizing data and information is extremely important in SMS, as much of your data analysis and performance monitoring depend on such an organization. One best practice to organize your data is assigning classifications to issues.
A classification is an organization tool. Classification is a word or a short phrase that describes the safety issue in some way.
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We generally understand a root cause as being the underlying heart of why a particular issue happens.
When aviation safety teams are reviewing, classifying, and investigating issues with root cause analysis, they are tasked with following the chain of “why” questions until they can reasonably assess why a safety issue occurred.
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I was recently talking to a friend about the less spectacular points of his job as an aviation safety manager.
We talked about this and that – the various hurdles every aviation safety manager has to jump over every day.
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It’s important to make the distinction between the
Being ICAO compliant with continuous improvement is a systematic review to continuous improvement verification.
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Reducing resistance to change in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is not often associated with safety training. But when safety managers know the right topics for aviation SMS training and pursue those topics effectively, a natural consequence is:
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