Most of us have experienced the following: sitting on the runway for over an hour wondering why the plane isn’t moving. The pilot has already apologized and given the “reason” for the delay: the daunting and nebulous “technical difficulties.”
For passengers, this type of situation is frustrating at best, and at worst unnerving, even scary.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Timely reporting of hazards, incidents, or accidents is seen as an essential activity of aviation safety and risk management. I can safely say that without reported hazards or safety issues, there will be:
Topics: Risk Management Software
Having "real-time" safety charts saves aviation safety managers, executives, and employees a lot of work and keeps them informed of the latest hazards and risks affecting aviation-centric operations.
Having access to real-time safety charts allows management to monitor your SMS program at a glance, rather than having to navigate through your software
Topics: Risk Management Software
For every aviation safety management system (SMS), the accountable executive must ensure the SMS is properly implemented and performing in all areas of the organization. To achieve this end, safety management teams work to ensure that all personnel participate in the aviation SMS.
Wishes and reality are two different ideas. The reality is that most employees care about the SMS as much as the company's traditional safety program.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Most aviation companies are profit-driven. Aviation service providers attempt to provide safe services while providing a return on investment.
Many upper-level managers at smaller companies believe that safety managers don't need modern aviation safety management databases to manage aviation safety management systems (SMS) documentation requirements.
They may be right. Not every company should buy these SMS tools.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Safety managers are resourceful professionals. Their respective companies demand that they provide results on extremely limited budgets. Many times safety managers are appointed without adequate training. In these cases, safety managers are kicked into the deep end of the swimming pool.
Sink or swim, safety manager.
Most often, the accountable executive doesn't understand all the documentation requirements in an aviation safety management system (SMS).
Topics: Risk Management Software
Empirical evidence and results from historical aviation accident investigations have shown that accidents are often preceded by safety-related incidents that reveal the presence of untreated hazards.
These "leading indicators" are commonly known to employees and are usually not formally reported in an aviation safety management system (SMS) database.
Leading indicators can take one of several forms:
Topics: Risk Management Software
Web-based hazard reporting templates or forms are key to the healthy performance of aviation safety management systems (SMS). Safety cultures depend on well-designed, user-friendly tools to report and manage reported safety concerns.
Without user-friendly safety reporting forms, there are only a few other options for safety managers to receive hazard and safety reports from
Topics: Risk Management Software
For over a dozen years, the majority of commercial aviation service providers around the world have been working towards compliance with ICAO's aviation safety management system (SMS) guidelines.
Transport Canada's SMS, as well as the Australia Civil Aviation Safety Authority's SMS, are world leaders in their SMS implementations and enforcement of ICAO's SMS guidelines.
Topics: Risk Management Software
Modern aviation Safety Management System (SMS) database software provides
Topics: Risk Management Software
These two on-demand videos offer:
