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. There is a subsection that packs a dynamite punch that should leave most of you reeling with uncertainty.
This requirement is buried in the subsection 5.25 (c) Designation of management personnel and deals with monitoring the effectiveness of safety risk controls.
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. The intent is not for the aviation SMS to reach some ideal "plateau of safety" and then maintain the "ideal safety level." Far from it!
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
The objective of aviation safety management systems (SMS) is proactively manage safety using structured risk management processes.
Once operators have these processes in place, it is the civil aviation authorities (CAA) expectation for aviation service providers to
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Data mining is a critical, intermittent risk management activity safety managers need to perform in their aviation safety management systems (SMS) to organize, understand, and process collected safety data acquired during the organization risk management processes.
Topics: Aviation SMS Database, 3-Safety Assurance
In aviation safety management systems (SMS), one of the main activities that senior managers and safety teams will undertake will be to
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
Creating successful aviation safety management systems (SMS) requires a great deal of honesty on the part of:
Topics: 3-Safety Assurance
These two on-demand videos offer:
