Most safety professionals have a common-sense perception about how to monitor the safety performance of their aviation safety management system (SMS). After all, isn't safety performance monitoring just a fancy phrase for setting goals and tracking them?
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Auditing is a management practice that is very common in most industrial domains and for a variety of different purposes.
Administrative personnel, for example, are very familiar with financial auditing.
Professionals working under a quality management system certification are familiar with quality auditing.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation safety managers usually have different opinions about exactly what root cause analysis is.
Root cause analysis activities for one safety manager may not align with the risk management processes practiced by another.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Historically, quality management systems and traditional safety programs have been managed separately. With the advent of modern safety management systems (SMS), there is an opportunity to develop synergies between the two systems.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Aviation leading indicators are aviation safety data put to best use. They are designed to identify precursors to good/bad safety performance and uncover what goes into the program that dictates success or failure.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
An aviation safety database is not simply an improvement over spreadsheets. The database completely overhauls the way you interact with safety information in an aviation safety management system (SMS). An SMS database is a proper technology to manage an aviation SMS for operators with:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Does your aviation SMS make money? Probably not.
Why not? Most aviation SMS failures result from operators consistently neglecting to follow the prescribed aviation SMS recipe as originally designed.
FAA Part 5 - Safety Management Systems has a subtle, but important requirement stuck in subsection 5.25 Designation and responsibilities of required safety management personnel.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
In every aviation safety management system (SMS), the accountable executive is responsible for ensuring the SMS is properly implemented and performing in all areas of the organization.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance, FAA Compliance
For an aviation safety management system (SMS) to be effective, the SMS must be monitored to assure managers and regulatory authorities that the SMS is both
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance, FAA Compliance
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