Many newly-appointed safety managers try to single-handedly push their organization's aviation safety management systems (SMS) to success. Safety managers are hired to perform an ambitious undertaking that is not heartily welcomed by the entire organization.
SMS implementations require consistent change management activities. These activities naturally induce frustration and resistance to change.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 1-Safety Policy, Quality-Safety Management
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. Other operators treat SMS as a "check-the-box" obligation to satisfy as expeditiously as possible, thereby consciously neglecting the "presumable benefits."
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) are designed to be implemented in a top-down managerial style for some "not-so-obvious reasons." For one reason, the "accountable executive" cannot accurately be considered "accountable" when safety initiatives and budgets exist beyond their direct control.
Many modern line-level aviation managers maintain an imperfect perception of value relating to cost-effective aviation operations. These immature, untrained value hunters act as if leadership prizes value solely from the bottom-line perspective, no matter where it comes from, or how those dollars magically appear at the bottom of corporate balance sheets.
Your organization's managerial bargain hunters and shrewd negotiators may actually transfer organizational risk to safety as the organization tries to grow and develop its aviation assets.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation, 2-Safety Risk Management
If you cannot handle emotional pain or controversy today, please don't read this. I certainly don't mean to offend, but I have to say this:
Most aviation service providers are lying regarding their aviation SMS implementations.
What? We just spent tens of thousands of dollars on aviation safety management system (SMS) implementation consultants and we don't have an SMS implementation?
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
If you are reading this, chances are you have just begun implementing your aviation safety management systems (SMS). Or, you would like to see how your implementation plan stacks up against the suggested process for creating an implementation plan.
Either way, the important things you need to know about aviation SMS implementation plans are that they:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Aviation safety management systems (SMS) are viewed as complex systems comprised of multiple, interdependent subsystems. These subsystems include, but are not limited to:
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Flight schools operate with many risky hazards every day.
Students are inexperienced, usually younger, and are new to technology and the hazards of flying.
Moreover, the pressure that students undergoing flight training feel to perform well naturally makes them less prepared to identify hazards early on.
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
Sustainability is a modern buzz word, and aviation safety management systems (SMS) are no exception. Sustainable SMS implementations are those that survive
The question every safety manager and/or upper manager needs to ask is, does my SMS implementation achieve these sustainable goals?
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
It’s easy to get lost in the bureaucracy side of aviation safety management systems (SMS):
Topics: Aviation SMS Implementation
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