The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has updated the Safety Management System (SMS) requirements for Part 121 operators under 14 CFR Part 5, as outlined in the April 2024 final rulemaking.
These updates introduce specific requirements aimed at enhancing safety through improved
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion, 3-Safety Assurance, 1-Safety Policy, 2-Safety Risk Management
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Part 5 regulations mandate a structured Safety Management System (SMS) for certificate holders, including
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, Aviation SMS Database, 4-Safety Promotion, 3-Safety Assurance, 1-Safety Policy, 2-Safety Risk Management
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) require both initial and recurrent SMS training for all employees. Safety professionals recognize this requirement once they reach Phase 2 of the SMS implementation.
For small companies with 20 to 100 employees, it is not feasible to send all employees to aviation SMS training courses.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
The more people involved in the aviation field take advantage of these aviation safety programs, the safer the industry is likely to be.
Encouraging participation in these programs can be as simple as word of mouth referrals or posting program information on bulletin boards at the local fixed base operator (FBO).
However, safety promotion efforts alone are seldom enough to motivate employees to actively involve themselves in a safety program.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
In order to understand the idea of safety culture within the aviation industry, we must first understand the respect attributed to:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Teamwork is a word used often in the workplace. We’ve all heard that it’s important to work together. Why cover the same ground again?
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Unlike those who study and create safety management systems (SMS), to the average employee these programs can be boring.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
“Safety culture” is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in aviation safety management systems (SMS) as a vague reference to different aspects of safety.
Understanding the meaning of aviation safety culture is less practiced in philosophy as it is recognition of what it looks like in actual practice for:
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Last year my wife went to the dentist to have a filling put into one of her teeth. She had severe pain for several days, went back to the dentist, and found out that he had put the filling in backward. He replaced it with a new filling but the next day it fell out of her tooth.
We chose a different dentist this time around.
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion
Safety culture in aviation safety management systems (SMS) is usually defined as being the safety attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and values of employees in an organization. Unfortunately, such a high-level, conceptual definition of safety culture does not help
Topics: 4-Safety Promotion, Safety Culture
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