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.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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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Effective data organization is the cornerstone of robust aviation Safety Management System (SMS) data analysis, enabling airlines, airports, MROs, and flight schools to ensure compliance with FAA Part 5 and ICAO Annex 19 while identifying risks.
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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.
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
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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The 4 I’s of Issue Management are a useful, high-level way of looking at the process and steps for managing hazard reports.
In terms of how to manage hazard reports, these 4 basic steps in the process are:
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Fatigue is the sixth of the Dirty Dozen Human Factors.
Fatigue has traditionally received a lot of attention from flight crew due to the dramatic effects of the different types of fatigue on pilot and cabin crew performance.
One of the primary challenges associated with fatigue in the workplace is that the symptoms of fatigue are other Human Factors.
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One of the biggest problems in aviation risk management is the misuse or misunderstanding of aviation risk management definitions and concepts. The most common mistakes happen when it comes to the idea of a hazard vs risk.
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