Proactive risk management is often esteemed as the “best” type of risk management. This is because proactive risk management usually matures later in SMS implementation. Also, it involves identifying and stopping issues before they occur.
Despite this, it’s important to understand that proactive risk management is not “better” than reactive or predictive risk management, it is just one necessary strategy for managing risk.
The idea of a safety management system (SMS) is something those of us in the aviation risk management industry use as if an SMS were one solid “thing.” But a safety management system is actually made up of multiple ideas, packaged into a single, functioning effort for better aviation safety.
These different ideas are found in its name:
Topics: 1-Safety Policy, Quality-Safety Management
Proving the effectiveness of your aviation safety management system comes in several flavors. Who are you proving the effectiveness to? You might be showing your SMS effectiveness at managing safety to:
In the aviation industry, it’s important to manage change effectively. Change can be organizational, procedural, or technological.
Change occurs any time an established practice is altered.
Change can seem small, like changing suppliers. Or it could be a large change, like adding a new type of airplane to your feet.
When you plan for changes before they happen, you can take measures to proactively manage risk as well. Managing risk is a fundamental part of managing change.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Responsibility n. the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone. (Oxford Dictionary)
Most of us learned about responsibility as children. Our parents gave us responsibilities like walking the dog or loading the dishwasher. As adults, we’re responsible for paying our bills, finishing our tasks at work, and doing the laundry.
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
In SMS, it’s extremely useful to organize reported issues by classifying them with classifications.
A classification is simply a unit of organization. By “unit of organization,” we are talking about a short phrase that describes the safety issue in one way. This issue can be described in terms of:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
In aviation maintenance, as in all other aspects of the aviation sector, safety is paramount. 4 safety management practices that can be applied to make any maintenance operation safer are:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Two general aspects of safety management systems encompass due diligence of the entire SMS: SMS design and actual safety operations.
Practicing due diligence means ensuring that the design closely matches reality.
To use aviation safety lingo:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Tracking employees' documents and records is one of the most important documentation tasks aviation service providers have. This is especially true in the case of pilots, where poor record-keeping can result in regulatory fines.
Most aviation service providers manage their record keeping manually, such as in:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
Aviation service providers are well aware importance of tracking pilots’ records and documents.
At any given time, an aviation service provider may have dozens of records that require action. Especially when these records are being documented in something like an Excel spreadsheet.
Sound familiar?
Managing all of these records can:
Topics: Quality-Safety Management
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