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4 I’s of the Issue Management Life Cycle in Aviation SMS

Posted by Tyler Britton on Feb 26, 2018 6:27:00 AM

What the Issue Management Life Cycle Is

The life cycle of hazard and risk occurrence (including other types of occurrences) encompasses the entirety of an adverse event to final consequences.

The process that follows the hazard/risk occurrence life cycle is the issue management life cycle.

The issue management life cycle includes all the steps management takes from identifying an issue to fixing the issue (and beyond this, monitoring the fix).

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance

What Are Best Practices for Change Management in Aviation SMS

Posted by Tyler Britton on Jan 22, 2018 5:48:00 AM

What Is Management of Change in Aviation SMS

Management of change in aviation SMS is a formal process for implementing system-level changes in aviation SMS programs.

By system-level, we are talking about a change that is significant enough to affect the design of your SMS.

Small changes only affect one small part of your SMS, such as single risk control, and are implemented with corrective-preventative actions (CPAs). System changes are a higher level of change that affects multiple areas of operations.

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance, 2-Safety Risk Management

What Continuous Improvement Compliance Looks Like in Real SMS Program

Posted by Tyler Britton on Dec 18, 2017 6:07:00 AM

What Is Continuous Improvement in Aviation SMS

Continuous improvement in aviation SMS programs in the formal process by which safety programs correct substandard safety performances that have been identified. Correcting substandard performance has several basic elements:

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance

All Corrective Preventative Actions Not Created Equal: Initial Mitigating Actions

Posted by Tyler Britton on Dec 4, 2017 5:55:00 AM

What Are Corrective Preventative Actions (CPAs)

In aviation safety management systems (SMS), reported safety issues and audit findings are run through an operator's documented risk management process. During this process, additional mitigation measures must be applied to safety concerns whenever the risk is either:

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance

Safety Chart: Monitor Aviation SMS Performance With Leading Indicators

Posted by Tyler Britton on Sep 21, 2016 6:05:00 AM

What Is Aviation SMS Performance?

Aviation service providers around the world have been devoting considerable resources to implement formal aviation safety management systems (SMS). Each of these SMS implementations requires safety performance monitoring and measurement of critical data elements.

Clearly, many elements and risk management activities that makeup SMS' performance. Where does a safety manager start?

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance, 2-Safety Risk Management

Your Risk Management Attitude, Risk Response, and Emotional Intelligence

Posted by Tyler Britton on Aug 16, 2016 6:00:00 AM

Aviation Risk Management Is More Than Data and Processes

In most aviation safety management systems (SMS), the single most important factor for superior risk management capabilities often, unfortunately, receives the least attention: a mature safety risk culture – which we can confidently say is the collective risk management attitude of an organization.

Experience and research tell us that the risk attitude of employees significantly influences whether an aviation SMS delivers the level of safety that it promises.

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance

How Human Factors in Aviation SMS Should Be Viewed

Posted by Tyler Britton on May 23, 2016 6:00:00 AM

A Different Look at Aviation SMS Human Factors

I’ve never much cared for the phrase “Human Factors.

It has a negative edge to it that unfortunately has tended to bleed into the mindset of many aviation SMS implementations as the “Human Problem” - the thing that needs to be fixed.

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance

Who Is the FAA Safety Assurance System (SAS) Profile for?

Posted by Tyler Britton on May 2, 2016 6:00:00 AM

The FAA SAS Profile for

As you may already know from our previous post, our FAA SAS Profile provides the collection of tools that aviation safety professionals need for assessing their certificates' safety assurance requirements.

Our SAS Profile tool can help:

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance

Which Topics for Aviation Maintenance Human Factors Training?

Posted by Dr. Bob Baron on Apr 29, 2016 6:00:00 AM

Reviewing Your Human Factors Training Program

When was the last time you took a good look at your Human Factors (HF) course?

Does it strategically focus on the current aviation maintenance problem areas?

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance

The Real Way to Assess the Effectiveness of Your Aviation SMS

Posted by Tyler Britton on Apr 4, 2016 6:00:00 AM

Adaptability in Aviation SMS

The basic fact is that truly judging the effectiveness of aviation safety management systems (SMS) is tough.

To merely judge the effectiveness of a program based on how well it meets compliance sounds prescriptive at best.

Judging a program based on a number of incidents and other such numeric data is terribly inadequate. It doesn’t take into account so many other factors that can reveal an SMS' health, such as:

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Topics: 3-Safety Assurance

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